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One shouldn't assume that they must. But, one can look at the stats to observe that they have. Linux is still sitting at 0.9% on the Steam hardware survey. By trying to be inclusive in theory, you would be excluding 99% of the audience in practice.


>One shouldn't assume that they must. But, one can look at the stats to observe that they have.

You have stats about students? Where is it published? You can't use Steam for measuring education metrics.

Anyway, apparently the author wanted to provide tutorials for different OSes. My point was that he could focus on Linux first, and that would have been a proper educational choice as I explained above.




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