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Setup your 10 year old with bleeding edge Arch Linux, add a script to automatically update nightly (or even hourly lol), and give them a secondary device like a
by qbasic_forever 4y ago
Setup your 10 year old with bleeding edge Arch Linux, add a script to automatically update nightly (or even hourly lol), and give them a secondary device like a tablet loaded up with access to arch wiki, every man page, etc. but nothing else. They will be an absolute Linux wizard in months and maybe a core contributor soon after.
- snvzz 4y agoDoubtful. Setting it up for him means passing up on an opportunity for him to learn by doing it himself. Automatic upgrades means passing up on another such opportunity. Not a good way to start.
- afavour 4y agoAnd they won’t be able to complete their school work
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- qbasic_forever 4y agoArguably they'll be learning more valuable skills than some of the schoolwork teaches.
- JoeJonathan 4y agoI can't tell if you're kidding
- intrasight 4y agoHe did say "some"
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agoComputers are tools. You're supposed to learn them because they make you better at something else. There is no virtue in being a Linux wizard; if anything it's a stain on Linux that wizards are even a thing.
- UncleEntity 4y agoEvery single time I’ve had to poke around my mom’s computer in the last 20 years I’ve come to the conclusion you need to be a Windows Wizard to do even simplish things. Linux stuff, no problem. Really depends on what you’re used to, I suppose.
- bluescarni 4y ago"Hacker" news, ladies and gentlemen.
- dahinds 4y agoReally? All my daughter needs for school is access to a decent browser.
- joeman1000 4y agoSounds 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.
- matthew28845 4y agoMy first computer was a Raspberry Pi v1 that I got when I was 9 (now 19). Definitely not the case for me. I became proficient in using Linux very quickly.
- joeman1000 4y agoWere you running bleeding edge Arch updating every day though? Probably not. An RPi is fine for kids. The original comment suggested the sadistic Arch setup, which would obviously just frustrate most kids at worst, and waste their time and creativity at best.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoThat's awesome!
- kccqzy 4y agoMy father first introduced me to Linux (an installation disc he borrowed from his employer). It didn't work. It just didn't click for me, and I didn't know why my Dad would consist that I use it. Fast forward a few years a couple of friends around my age introduced me to Linux; it was Ubuntu back when it was hipster and trendy and friendly. I started by dual booting (probably WUBI) and then switched completely. This is just purely anecdotal, but my conclusion is that it just didn't work when a parent forces a child to do anything. Better to influence the social circle of the child so that the child can be convinced to learn use Linux from friends.
- mhh__ 4y agoIt works for some people although I think the hacker spirit is quite correlated with being contrarian wrt to your parents.
- BaculumMeumEst 4y agoI’ve run arch and gentoo for years, i’ll be setting up my kid with a mac unless he expresses extreme interest in the depths of linux. Learning linux trivia is misrepresented as virtuous and there are more useful things to do with your time.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoWhen you're a kid it's precisely the time to learn about and deal with all the minutia. Tell them it's like Minecraft but you're building an operating system instead of a world.
- dysoco 4y agoYeah obviously, but as long as the kid is interested in bulding an OS from the ground up, if he wants to do webdev, 3d design, music production, writing or whatever, it's just gonnna be an useless hassle. And this comes from someone who spent a good amount of his teenage years toying with linux, arch, slackware, lfs, whatever. It was good fun but nowadays I think it was mostly useless and I'd rather had finished dev projects or whatever.
- intrasight 4y agoMy daughter got a new laptop recently. I was very happy and proud that one of the first things she did was to install a Linux partition.
- unnouinceput 4y agoRebecca?
- ummonk 4y agoSetup your 10 year old with a ChatGPT and Midjourney subscription instead so they become a talented prompt engineer instead of a systems engineering neckbeard.
- h4ch1 4y agomissing /s ?
- dagw 4y agoI naively did something like that with my kid, although nowhere near as extreme. All I achieved was to instantly kill any interest she might have had for learning about tech and computers.