that makes no sense at all. You use linux because you hate windows apps and don't want to use any of them? Nothing about Windows itself, just the apps that run on Windows? "nah dude, I don't want to deal with that library of 100,000 vinyl records... I have the best 20 records right here and you probably have a bunch of scratched ones in your collection anyway." Yeah, those are the words of insanity. With that logic I'm really surprised linux desktop apps aren't just bursting at the seams. /s

classically this has always been the expectation of undergrads. IMO the needle has moved too far to "learning to deal with all situations ever thrown at you" instead of "you now know how to perform this discipline adequately, go get a job." the things that are worth thinking about but can't be classified are what you're supposed to talk to your professors about during their office hours or over lunch. Having a class dedicated to learning something that everybody can explain at that level is just another excuse to offer 1000 classes so there's some obscure reason to keep raising tuition now that every dorm seems to have its own wellness center and olympic swimming pool.

Because if they're undergrad classes then the goal of the classes is to fill in the already missing information that students don't know. If they're graduate classes then the goal of the classes should be to assist with finding new information so there's less missing information out there. What point would this class have in undergrad where the student is supposed to assume they don't know everything about the subject? What point would this class have in grad school where the student is expected to help reduce ignorance on the subject they are studying?