That kind of fuckery drove me off a company-sponsored training course.
This is like the Apple Business website, which only works in Safari, according to them. Used the User-Agent Switcher plugin, and the website/dashboard works just fine on Firefox in Linux.
You heard that OP? That’s how you do it, it’ll still work on Linux.
welp, I use Vivaldi without any user-agent switching and it works fine
They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.
They mean downgrade
I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.
Change your user agent. There’s a bunch of extensions for that and they don’t compromise functionality.
“Upgrading” to a supported operating system… “Upgrading”.
Yeah, that was also what got into my nerves.
Your operating system Ubuntu, is not supported.
Click here to upgrade to Arch, btw.
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Debian.
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Ubuntu.
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to TempleOS.
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Arch.
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
I tried to download Microsoft Office on Linux Mint and I couldn’t even download the exe (to run through wine), I needed to go to Windows to download it … now I just need to make it work (I am in the 1% of people who actually need official Excel)
LibreOffice is decent. Have you tried it yet? Anything major it can’t do for you?
Would be great if the web app had the same features as the desktop app
Ugh, webapps are obnoxious as hell to me. Give me a thick client any day. Biggest irritation for most for me is the loss of keyboard control
This might be the right case to use a VM. Though, I just keep a spare SSD with Windows.
I wonder if MAS can work through Mint, even if just to download the installer?
Might try it later.
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.
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
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Haiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat
Upgrade
Insults on top of incompetence, huh?
It’s Pearson.
Its a parasite
Its comical that in the last 25 years Linux has gone from a nerd-only tool to something that a 10 year old can install on an air-fryer and still we deal with this bs
