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

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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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[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I'd install it with her. As quick as possible, no lengthy explanation. Installing doesn't take long. When it installs, you can play a game. Just so she sees that it's no witchcraft

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