> but my kids that are too young for phones join in with Dino
Curious about this, since it seems to imply your kids use Linux desktops. How has that worked out?
Curious about this, since it seems to imply your kids use Linux desktops. How has that worked out?
My daughter recently has started to do more artwork on the computer (she's using a Wacom tablet with Krita). I don't know much about that world. Maybe there are way better tools and she'll want to switch to one of those in the future? (Is that an ipad? some Adobe software?). I figure as they get older and develop their own opinions we can revisit what types of computers/software they use, but for now things are going good.
Looking back on my youth I think I'd be concerned with my kids installing bloatware, malware, etc. I feel like that whole genre of software would be much more challenging to install, which leaves me at two outcomes:
1) They don't install bloatware/malware. Excellent! 2) They figure out how to install bloatware/malware. Still pretty great as that means they are learning their environment.
I think being technically literate with your daily driver computer is crucial to daily success, so either way I think kids would do fine.
No issues with it. The (IMO, kind of sad) reality is that almost everything she needs to interact with is either web or cross-platform electron. The only real exception here is Zoom, which has a native linux client. She doesn't really need to understand much detail to use the machine.
She used GNOME before she ever saw Windows. We switched school systems and now she has a Windows laptop at school and her Linux laptop here, which she switches back and forth between without any trouble.
The only usability quirk is the LUKS FDE decryption phase, where she has to enter in her password before the system starts. There's no GUI and bad feedback on when she's typing, so it's confusing. But she understands what to do now and usually has no trouble (you might be surprised at how flexible kids are).