College Laptop Program vs. Bring Your Own?

blevine
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:15:04 +0000

@joedoe I agree, debugger was my son’s biggest problem. He used gdb but not any graphical debugger since he had an old version of XCODE and nobody there could help him get it working. You are a bit on your own sometimes, but he has already taken 2 CS classes and used the Mac despite the fact he also has a high end Windows laptop. I do agree Linux would be slightly better, but Mac
is usable and my son likes his Mac for most other tasks.

But then does RPI IT department support the dual boot ?
I think they install windows and you need to setup the dual boot yourself if you use the RPI laptop.
Will they still give same support for the RPI laptop if you make that change ?

What other software other than debugging has been a problem ?