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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Just helped build my 12 year old cousin his first computer and was forced into putting Windows on it. Now, I get that it's important that he at least understand what the "normal OS" is, but I did want to put at least Mint or something on there. Zoomers and Alpha really don't know how to navigate even the basics, though, and this kid was no exception.
Well, technically I wanted to put something based on Arch but even I know that's a bad idea for a sink or swim computer moment.
What do you consider "the basics"? I regards to getting a 12 yr old started on Linux
The kid didn't know file systems and didn't even know not to just power off the system randomly. Granted, Linux plays by different rules and would arguably be easier in some regards, but yeah... walk before you can run.