I got suspended for dual booting my school chrome book
Back when I went to college, I got banned from the schools wifi network until I was able to prove I had a valid windows and office356 licence.
Problem was that my laptops windows 7 license sticker had been carelessly removed because I thought I wouldn’t need it anymore. As for documents I was doing fine with Google docs (and latex).
I explained the IT guys my situation, but they told me that I have to use windows because that’s how their Network is setup or whatever. Anyway I yielded and bought 3 months of office365 and edited the email so it would say another date. I also bought a windows home licence.
I setup a VM with all of it and went to the IT guys to proof that everything was okay. They checked everything and then asked me why my laptop has no WiFi … . Well they caught me and told me they would unban me if I would remove “whatever this is”.
I did not yield this time and did my last 6 months of school with a 3g dongle and logged into the schools VPN system from there. Fuck those guys.
The stupid part is that the schools WiFi worked fine on my Linux computer for 2 years and a bit. The problem started when I got issues accessing the local windows shares and reported that. What was their call to ban me for “cheating” the system.
I saw a guy saying he was booting school computers off his Linux flash drive. I told him to be careful; don’t do that. Especially if they see you using a terminal.
almost failed a assesment because I was marked down for “ineffective use of software” (I was using arch and a pycharm instead of windows 8.1 and wing ide was I really the bad guy there?)
I did the same thing a bunch at my high school, until a tech-savvy-ish teacher saw my monitor and asked me why it was unpacking a ton of stuff.
I told him it was a fake hacking website (like hackertyper). He didn’t seem to buy it. I now no longer do that.
got kicked out of a kahoot game for having a code editor and a terminal open on my windows laptop
I got in lots of trouble for messing with my middle-schools tech, good times. I know it’s wrong to mess with others property, but I don’t feel bad, that school treated me like shit.
I work in IBM. Prompt: “Please explain why u need Windows and you cannot use Linux (RHEL) or MACOS in your daily work” when you are requesting MS licence 
u can have macbook or thinkpad (X or T series) - I like them!
Tbh just buy a cheap-ish used laptop, throw Linux on it, and use it at school. That’s what I do when I’m not in the mood to use ChromeOS.
The teacher in me says you shouldn’t have done that as it could potentially void the computer’s warranty.
The linux user in me feels your pain.
I learned everything I know about linux from a high school teacher. Sorry, kid
Did you mod the boot loader?
The company system admin pet of me says, you should not be tampering with company property (I know it’s a school, but’s be honest, how many schools aren’t run like corporations?)
The hacker side of me salutes you in your endeavour.
Times have changed. Myself and small group of friends owned our whole high schools network (labs, admin machines, printers, etc.) and we got suspended over the Christmas holiday (we had a cool computer teacher). We also got to maintain the schools computers and network, saving them money and giving us an education we were actually interested in.
When you get back to school, I’m not going to tell you to do it again but better. But I’m not not going to tell you to do t again, but better.
Realistically, it’s only wrong because you got caught.
Free software song, a song of freedom, it’s all I ever haaaad
When I was in college we where the first modern school to do tests on the PC.
Being a programmer and linux user I used a memory editor to change my answers to correct. Nobody freak out about me using this software during the test. They just told me it only takes away valuable test time.
Seems times have changed
School tech is always fucking stupid.
My school told me not to use my bootable usb on their computers.
I still do it anyway.
Nobody’s noticed.
They’re just mad because they don’t have anyone smart enough to remove the dual-boot.
Follow your school’s rules about how you treat their hardware. I wouldn’t say being suspended is fair but it was right for them to take some sort of disciplinary action. You definitely do not mess with things you don’t even own, no matter how much better software you think you have instead.
The teachers just accept it’s not windows on mine and move on, I guess I’m safe
Although, I do have to use the school’s pcs (w7) for some things and that’s a yikes
Is it your property? In pretty skeptical about you getting disciplined for using your computer as you choose.
What seems more likely to me is that you’re using their computer and/or their network in a manner other then they support.
At our school the first challenge we had to do was to remove windows and install Linux and then configure it to work with existing network (LDAP). This was like 2008-2009?
Chromebooks have chromeOS, not windows.
A Chromebook is a laptop or tablet running the Linux-based Chrome OS as its operating system.