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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[-] matmarspace@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe setup system backups with picka backup or sth like that so that if something brakes you can easily restore everything.

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