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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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[โ€“] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As the parent of a ten year old, make sure you check in with the parent. I'd want to make sure there's some web guardrails and some time limits.

[โ€“] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Don't worry, I tell my sis everything lol