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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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[–] 7 points 1 year ago

I installed and switched to Ubuntu around the same age. I'm sure your niece will be fine with Mint. All she really needs to know how to do is to look stuff up online.

I recommend pointing her towards Mint and encouraging her to install it herself. Don't assume that children are incapable of these things just because they're children.

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