I've just had one of my most chilling experiences of being treated like a second class citizen

I'm having a hard time getting work at the moment. I'm 23 years old knows a decent bit of Linux and Infrastructure.

I never completed my comp sci degree. So I figured I'd go back and get my degree since it seems jobs are so infatuated about having that degree. I've recently started a online-remote school considering we're all still home-bound. I just finished my first course and I'm ready to take my exam.

Come to find out my operating system is 'not supported'. That's fine I hear that often.. I join the school's discord and ask if not supported means "no supported given" or "no you cannot take this test". Boy did I get flamed for being unhappy I don't want a specific machine just to take my school exams. It turns to take these the exam protector software suites must put some ring 0 rootkit in the OS to ensure you're not cheating. I told them "well thanks I should be okay on my /r/vfio vm". I got flamed x5. I should've just left it at that and walked away but it's quite sad people still can't understand the appeal of wanting to use Linux on the desktop. 75% of my classes are linux based in the first place...

Sorry if this is too /r/linuxcirclejerk but I just wanted to share my thoughts, and hear if people had similar experiences.