

I did not touch Windows during or after my CS degree. No clue what people are on about needing Windows. It was a challenge on my first job where they preferred us to use VMs instead (I did not and it became the norm because it is better).
Graduated in Europe. We had a bunch going through the same. Campus computers were running Linux too. You need someone to champion it in the year and others will join.









Having experimented with this a lot, I’d say it depends :P
Keyboard only you can get by with 5fps or so, but there’s no real feedback at that point.
15fps is ok and quite usable. Artifacts are the more annoying thing at that rate. 30fps is really more then necessary (though I agree higher is nice on lcd displays).
What bothered me most is the limited contrast, pixel density and limited amount of colors on color eink display.