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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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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

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