4 out of 5 Professors say NO LINUX

My first day of school at University and already I am feeling ill. I use Vector Linux on an old Dell laptop and it has served me quite well over my senior year in secondary school. Now I am at University level as a psych major and I have been instructed by 4 of my 5 professors that Linux is not acceptable for clbutt. Reasons given, and I asked in each clbutt, were poor support of Word formatted documents and spreadsheets. Terrible translation of tables and formula and also no support for the various programs given out by the school for use in clbutt. One professor got annoyed when I asked for specifics about poor support and he started to rant and rave about how he is sick and tired of trying to decipher files sent to him by Linux users. I gave up at this point and purchased a copy of Windows XP from the school bookstore for very small amount. I don't have the time or energy to fight the system. The one clbutt that allows Linux is my Physics clbutt, but even that professor said that some of the simulations he hands out will not run with Linux. He did say that if it were up to him the entire university would use Linux but it is not. Heddy Seafield