Watched my niece yesterday and while we were playing Minecraft she noticed that my laptop “windows n stuff” didn’t look lik the schools computers and I told her about linux and she got rly interested and now she wants a laptop “just lik mine” which is runnin Linux Mint

She’s somewhat technical apt, for a 10 year old, and I could probs dig up a decent laptop for her but not sure if I should jus dump mint on a laptop for her and let her have at it or something else?

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Here’s what I’d give to 10y/o me.

    1. Explain partitions and filesystems (I already knew CPU, HDD, RAM etc)
    2. Explain the boot startup process
    • and how limited the motherboard’s mechanisms and the pre-OS environment is
    1. Hand over:
    • 1 working computer with an empty internal HDD (no OS pre-installed)
    • 1 USB drive with Debian ISO
    • 1 USB drive with Arch ISO
    • 1 other internet connected device with a pre-installed web browser

    Don’t do this to others.

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    As the parent of a ten year old, make sure you check in with the parent. I’d want to make sure there’s some web guardrails and some time limits.