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Heheh that was my oldest a couple years ago. He's 9 now but I let him use one of my laptops when he was like 7 to play Minecraft, and it eventually became "his" laptop.
He's also using Tumbleweed.
He learned how to do all sorts of Minecraft console commands mostly "on his own" (as in, without my guidance, he saw some of the stuff streamers were doing and I explained what it was printed out a little cheat sheet for him and set him off on his own to mess with it. I haven't taught him any Linux shell (yet), but he is getting pretty good at typing and keyboard shortcuts.
I don't much care for the streamers. Especially a lot of the Minecraft streamers that pander to kids (cough Mikey and JJ). I don't allow them in the house anymore. But I'm glad he got some inspiration out of it at least.
I dont know much about how family friendly they are (id say mostly) but mumbo jumbo, grian, and a large number of the people who make up the Hermitcraft are all pretty wholesome, entertaining, some of them are wizards with Redstone, others for aesthetic builds.
@titter@lemmy.world these are games ??🤔🤔🤔
@surfrock66@lemmy.world @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
My suggestions of grian and mumbo are you tube minecraft streamers. I used to only watch mumbo because he is good at technical things like the in-game logic circuitry called Redstone.
Hermitcraft is a minecraft server that hosts players over a season to build and play and create content together