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?

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    23·
    2 days ago

    KDE and showing her the effect customisations are key. My daughter went nuts with those when she was ten. Wobbly windows for life!

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      5·
      2 days ago

      GNOME user here. Also love wobbly windows. Must be innate human nature.

      • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        kde would prob be a bit more intuitive/easier to customize for a kid, i do prefer gnome my self, I also use wobbly + burn my windows

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          1·
          10 hours ago

          I dunno, I think the most confusing part of GNOME is that the dock is hidden, but you can disable that. Afterwards I don’t see any difference from the “tap/click the thing you want to open it” functions of any device.

          My kids use ChromeBooks at school, and GNOME on mine at home. They once asked why my computer was so complicated but it turned out it was only because I normally have 15 or 20 windows open at once 😅