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?

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just print out the arch wiki in a series of binders, give her access to a tech recycling center, and a screwdriver set. That'll learn'er

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dude... she's 10, what are you talking about. That would just be humiliation. Don't you know the age - distro gold standard?

    3 - Linux Mint
    6 - Arch
    9 - Gentoo
    13 - Linux from scratch
    15 - Maintainer of distribution
    18 - Kernel developer
    21 - Printer user

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