>How are graphics arts students supposed to learn how to use Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs that professionals actually use in the real world?
Are people really PAYING to learn photoshop? Waste of money.
>How are CS students supposed to learn how to use the plethora of tools that don't run in ChromeOS?
The same way they learn to use the tools that don't run on Windows or OS X. In my experience if you go to a good college Windows is discouraged for CS in favor of Unix and professors are knowledgeable of Unix and it's limitations when it comes to running Microsoft only software. In fact for every class that I took that required some windows tool (very few) we were encouraged to use the windows machines in the computer lab. I never used anything on my laptop but Linux the whole time I was getting my degree.
I don't use chrome OS so I don't know how unixy it is though
>How are business students supposed to learn how to use the full Office suite
If you need to take a college course to learn word processing you're probably not going to be very good at running a business.
Word processors and photoshop do not require college classes to learn. They should just be a part of local community colleges that allow people to earn certificates for using office software.
> if you go to a good college Windows is discouraged for CS in favor of Unix
You realize students in architecture or graphic design don't care about your petty OS war right? and you're statement is completely false. I went to a good college and I learned both server administration on Unix and Windows.
> Are people really PAYING to learn photoshop? Waste of money.
People are paying for an education that will get them a job, if the industry mandates the use of Photoshop for a specific professional task it's in the interest of a student to learn it. And obviously you don't know Photoshop, like at all or you wouldn't say the things you're say.
> Word processors and photoshop do not require college classes to learn. They should just be a part of local community colleges that allow people to earn certificates for using office software.
You realize there is a world between learning a word processor and Photoshop for a pro usage ? no you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't say such ignorant thing.
The problem is that you are a programmer and you think every discipline works like computer science where everything is in the cloud ... it doesn't.
What percentage of the working college graduates make a dime using Photoshop?
What "Pro" Word Processor work are you talking about? Word Processors for Type Setting is horrible and the vast majority of people OVER use Word, Excel etc...
What percentage of the working college graduates make a dime using AutoCAD ? 3DS Max ? Cinema 4D ? After Effects ? Final Cut Pro ? Avid ? Illustrator ? InDesign ? Logic ? Ableton Live ? Cubase ?
On what percentage of computers running ChromeOS can you install these softwares ? ZERO .
> Are people really PAYING to learn photoshop? Waste of money.
They're not paying to learn Photoshop. They're paying to learn to become professionals in a given field, and Photoshop/Illustrator/$PROGRAM are the tools-of-the-trade in that field. To pretend otherwise would be foolish.
Are people really PAYING to learn photoshop? Waste of money.
>How are CS students supposed to learn how to use the plethora of tools that don't run in ChromeOS?
The same way they learn to use the tools that don't run on Windows or OS X. In my experience if you go to a good college Windows is discouraged for CS in favor of Unix and professors are knowledgeable of Unix and it's limitations when it comes to running Microsoft only software. In fact for every class that I took that required some windows tool (very few) we were encouraged to use the windows machines in the computer lab. I never used anything on my laptop but Linux the whole time I was getting my degree.
I don't use chrome OS so I don't know how unixy it is though
>How are business students supposed to learn how to use the full Office suite
If you need to take a college course to learn word processing you're probably not going to be very good at running a business.
Word processors and photoshop do not require college classes to learn. They should just be a part of local community colleges that allow people to earn certificates for using office software.