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What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago by bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

yeah something exciting like kde would do wonders

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 20 hours ago

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