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What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land? (lemmy.ml)
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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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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd say go ahead with Mint, MATE edition is my preferred flavor.

Set it up with the Compiz 3D desktop cube switcher thing, and maybe a couple other nifty effects to mesmerize her even more!

Sure she'll likely end up tinkering more with the Compiz settings and bork the settings a bit after she sees what all it can do, but it can totally be a fun learning experience, and Linux is easy enough to reinstall anyways in worst case..

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