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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I had this problem over 10 years ago. change your user-agent, problem solved.

they do it because they are regulations for educational software that must be met, like specific access requirements in order to be used in accredited courses.

it's not anything specifically against Linux, it's that they can't test and validate those access requirements for anything outside Windows due to organizational limitations.

source: I worked for colleges early in my career that used Pearson then worked for a vendor that managed infrastructure and project management for Pearson. they aren't unique, their competition is just as fucked as they are. most still use waterfall because upper mgmt is old and refuses to adapt.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 5 points 21 minutes ago

My bank does this too. I also just change the user agent to switch and it works with no issues.

At this point it just seems silly that they even want to go out of their way to Prohibit Linux users

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 20 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago) (4 children)

they aren't all. vast majority is Windows Server and IBM.

edit: because people seem confused. I'm talking about Pearson directly, not global OS stats.

chill tf out Linux weebs. I'm one of you.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Windows has a laughable market share when it comes to webservers.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

I'm talking specifics, not globally.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 minutes ago

That is both laughably wrong, and immediately verifiable as false. As far as server marketshare goes, Linux leads the pack with 62.7%.

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 3 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago) (1 children)

Lol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

Pearson directly, not globally.

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 8 minutes ago

That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Guess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 59 minutes ago
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Dust? (but really its not Linux or windows anyway)

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

AIX (Unix), Windows, Powervm?

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 25 minutes ago

They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn't support a common OS.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 5 points 59 minutes ago

Change your user agent. There's a bunch of extensions for that and they don't compromise functionality.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 66 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I’ll just change my web browser’s user agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.

It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A small publisher's ebook platform recently started blocking firefox for me, did a bit of digging and found that if pages aren't requested with the right headers (which work in chrome and msedge) it will respond with a 302, suggesting you go to another page which takes a few minutes and then times out.

This is probably to stop scraping, and could be because I started testing some scraping scripts on it.

Anyway, this hasn't even stopped me scraping, I just copied the headers and use those in my script.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 46 minutes ago

I also use it, but it doesn't work in this case. Thats why I said headers instead of just user agent.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and so they can use browser ~~vulnerabilities~~ features to collect more data on you

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 hours ago

Nope we don't want to hire anyone who knows anything about Linux, no one uses Linux

"Linux is unsupported", that'll work

Everyone: uses a UA switcher

"See? No one uses Linux, 100% of users are on Windows or MacOS"

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 66 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Upgrading" to a supported operating system.... "Upgrading".

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, that was also what got into my nerves.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world -4 points 52 minutes ago (3 children)

But Lemmy told me you can do everything on Linux and there’s never compatibility issues! 😱

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

a "compatibility issue" would be if the website didn't load or display incorrectly, but as others pointed out, if you change your "user agent" (the code that tells websites what os and brower you use) to windows, it runs perfectly well
also, piss off, nobody's saying there are no difficulties

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

There isn't, in this case. Now stop being a tool.

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 5 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

No one told you that and you're mom is lying to you

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 26 minutes ago
[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 19 points 4 hours ago

Just had to deal with this last semester. Get a user agent switcher plugin and change your OS to windows, it should work for everything but proctored tests. You'll likely have to go in person for those

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 40 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

What "Key features" from an educational course could possibly require windows? It's spying on you.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

TPM2.0 DRM crap?

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Does it have online exams? Pearsons shitty anti cheat stuff they use for proctoring is windows and mac only.

Having seen how much people cheat including using someone else using screensharing to proxy the exam for you I cannot blame them for wanting to do this, but I do blame them for not wanting to support Linux properly.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If they're going to have online exams they need to just accept that cheating is going to happen. There's a million ways to do that in an environment you control. Make the exams open book but make it harder to account for the fact that the students have access to reference materials.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

So, in principle, I agree, but it doesn't help with proxying, or for example, one I saw this week of someone using AI voice assistant to answer questions. Or people copying and pasting from online groups.

Their shitty software monitors all the connected devices, running processes, and webcam. That's still needed for open book.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Yea but that takes work, and we'd like, have to pay our teachers more.

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