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I was asked by a cousin to help find something old and definitely offline so his kid can learn to type his name, draw on MSPaint (or similar), things that we de

I was asked by a cousin to help find something old and definitely offline so his kid can learn to type his name, draw on MSPaint (or similar), things that we deem basic but for a below-10yo seem miraculous. He doesn't want to just throw him a tablet and let him be. He wants to have a feeling for computing "the good old way" (not as far as DOS but Win98SE was good-looking enough and could do what he needs). Please don't trash Win98SE :)

zozbot234 7y ago
I'm not trashing Win98SE, I'm just "trashing" the use of bootleg software which I do find a bit distasteful in this day and age. Linux has plenty of nice educational games IIRC, even xpaint is right there. (BTW, FreeDOS comes with a bunch of cool GUI interfaces - not as nice-looking as Win98SE but quite usable. Do note that old OS's like FreeDOS, even Win9x can be a bit of a challenge to get to run even in a VM, since by default they will be hogging 100% of the CPU. There are HLT-issuing background tools that solve this for both FreeDOS/MS-DOS and Win9x, but you do have to get them installed and running properly.)
- jsjohnst 7y ago
  > I'm just "trashing" the use of bootleg software which I do find a bit distasteful in this day and age It’s rather presumptive to assume GP is “bootlegging” software just because they got install media from WW. The Thinkpad T22 came with Windows 98SE originally, so it’s very possible the Windows license certificate was still stuck to the bottom of the machine.