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What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] dil@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On cachyos gnome it wasn't immediately obvious how to grab extensions and that they even existed, so at first I was like f this and immeidately swapped to kde, only used it out of necessity because the global menu had issues and it was faster/easier to install another de over reinstalling my os and grabbing my apps again. Then after googling I realized the extension store exists and now I love it, but yeah it was initially off putting, I didn't have a gnome user around to tell me whats possible or a de with extensions already enabled to view.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

I will admit GNOME is more opinionated and trying to customize it too much gets pretty hard, but I like the default workflow with just a few tweaks. I definitely understand people who prefer KDE because they can make it how they like it, but I never could get KDE to act how I wanted it but GNOME is pretty much already what I want.