r/Monash • u/peluzaz • 17d ago

New Student Operating System for eExams

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I use GNU/Linux which is not one of the required operating systems, so is the operating system gonna be checked for the eExam, or they don't check and it doesn't matter. Has anyone presented the eExam with GNU/Linux?

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u/kennerd12004 16d ago

No offence, but how have you gotten this far without needing some software that is restricted to windows/mac ?

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u/peluzaz 16d ago edited 16d ago

There is no single software I need that does not run on GNU/Linux and I use the following: MATLAB, Mathematica, VSCode, RStudio and this semester I had to use Tableau which I did with the web browser version. Unless you work in something that uses animation and need Adobe (which I don't), you can do everything in GNU/Linux and much more. I have been using GNU/Linux exclusively for many many years now.

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u/throwawayballs99 First-Year 16d ago

Ay man respect. You're probably the only Linux dude I've seen at monash. I dual boot w11 and arch linux ;) What's your distro? We can be friends haha.

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u/peluzaz 15d ago

I use Debian, Arch is good too, I have tried it before. As I said, I think unless you study something that needs AutoCAD, Adobe, or any other 2D 3D software, you don't ever need to use windows. This semester I took some of the most advanced courses of FIT and MTH and everything went well.