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submitted 1 month ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Greetings, I am asking whether Linux has helped your family or not going from Windows to a friendly distribution that caters to young or elderly.

How was your experience with helping relatives or your kids with Linux? Was it because of an older spec machine? Costs etc?

I helped get my grandmother (dad's side) to move from windows 8.1 to Linux Mint which so far has been good, she only really browses and required some basic budgeting apps.

This was on something like an older core i3 or i5 but I didn't hear that many problems apart from getting drivers for her Epson printer to work.

So how has it been for you?

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[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

My wife is still on Mac OSX, but my son has embraced Mint. I’m a bit cheesed off that there aren’t (obviously) many kid friendly programming tutorial resources, other than maybe getting a sub to codeacademy. Other than that, all good.

[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

My first introduction to programmimg was Scratch when I was ~10 years old. I can't think of any more child friendly resources than that.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It plays nicely into code.org

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