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?

  • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
    25·
    2 days ago

    While mint is neat, Ubuntu or any distro with gnome would work in the “very graphical, large icons” sense.

    I dont know about mint, but debian does security updates automatically and just politely asks for a reboot now and then, perfect for an “unattended” device.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I dont know about mint, but debian does security updates automatically and just politely asks for a reboot now and then, perfect for an “unattended” device.

      Yeah, Mint can do this too. I’ve set it up on a few of our computers, but it was a while ago so I can’t remember exactly how. It was very easy though. The only downside was Firefox insisting on a restart after an update, but apparently that’s been fixed now :)