The Day Windows Died

Re:The Day Windows Died by joeman1000 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:17PM (#35416412)

Sounds like hell. They will quickly be turned away from Linux and want something simpler. Yak-shaving in lieu of work sounds cool, but it sucks when you really need to do stuff other than dick around in the terminal.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by matthew28845 on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:08AM (#35418452)

My first computer was a Raspberry Pi v1 that I got when I was 9 (now 19). Definitely not the case for me. I became proficient in using Linux very quickly.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by qbasic_forever on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:37AM (#35422455)

That's awesome!

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Re:The Day Windows Died by joeman1000 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:30PM (#35446091)

Were you running bleeding edge Arch updating every day though? Probably not. An RPi is fine for kids. The original comment suggested the sadistic Arch setup, which would obviously just frustrate most kids at worst, and waste their time and creativity at best.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by kccqzy on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:06AM (#35418773)

My father first introduced me to Linux (an installation disc he borrowed from his employer). It didn't work. It just didn't click for me, and I didn't know why my Dad would consist that I use it.

Fast forward a few years a couple of friends around my age introduced me to Linux; it was Ubuntu back when it was hipster and trendy and friendly. I started by dual booting (probably WUBI) and then switched completely.

This is just purely anecdotal, but my conclusion is that it just didn't work when a parent forces a child to do anything. Better to influence the social circle of the child so that the child can be convinced to learn use Linux from friends.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by mhh__ on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:20AM (#35419719)

It works for some people although I think the hacker spirit is quite correlated with being contrarian wrt to your parents.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by throw_m239339 on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:58AM (#35419538)

> Sounds like hell. They will quickly be turned away from Linux and want something simpler. Yak-shaving in lieu of work sounds cool, but it sucks when you really need to do stuff other than dick around in the terminal.

Kids did fine with Amiga or Atari ST back in the days. Linux isn't a problem at all, they'll get used to it. And Valve/Steam proton platform allows them to run plenty of games.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by dagw on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:13AM (#35421051)

Kids did fine with Amiga or Atari ST

A tiny number of very interested kids did fine, most just ignored computers.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by throw_m239339 on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:04AM (#35422819)

> A tiny number of very interested kids did fine, most just ignored computers.

This is false. It didn't take a genius to load a program just by putting a floppy disk into a floppy disk reader. It's even easier with linux. There is nothing difficult with Linux for a kid, nothing that is more complicated than windows.

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