[ale] OT: Linux+ Course requires Silverlight

[JD]

Complaining to us doesn't help too much unless someone on this list works in a
powerful position at that school.  Politely complain to the vendor AND to the
University chancellor, in writing. If possible, get others in the class to
complain as well.

Does anyone else have experiences where they've gotten Linux to be supported? How?

On 12/17/2014 05:53 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote:
> It's Western Governors University. The course is through Labsim. 
> I was aware that there were limited alternatives like pipelight, but I couldn't
> get anything to work in a relatively short amount of time. And as a newb, I just
> decided to bite the bullet and do it through Windows.  I just wanted a more
> comprehensive Linux experience 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Paul Storey <paul0123 at comcast.net
> <mailto:paul0123 at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>> Which university is this?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 12/16/2014 11:45 AM, K Thompson wrote:
>>> So, after talking to JD and getting convinced that it would be okay to
>>> complain about this using this forum, I finally decided to speak up about it.
>>>
>>> My university has a Linux+ course that I am in that requires Silverlight to
>>> run so that a newb like me would not be able to run the course outside of
>>> Windows. It is so frustrating that I cannot get a true Linux user experience
>>> of immersion into the OS through this course.  I was really looking forward
>>> to ditching Windows for a little bit.  Ugh!  Just Ugh!  I know I could have
>>> probably done it using something else, but then I'd still feel like that I
>>> was subject to Microsoft in some way.
>>>
>>> Anyways...I apologize for my rant, but I just wanted to put this out there
>>> and see if I was the only one that thought this was outrageous!
>>>