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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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