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Step 1, go back and get that chromebook. When your daughter is first learning to use a computer isn't the time to have her living a parallel separate experience
by akerl_ 3y ago
Step 1, go back and get that chromebook. When your daughter is first learning to use a computer isn't the time to have her living a parallel separate experience to all her classmates, and to what her teachers can support.
Step 2, https://www.minecraft.net/en-us https://www.minecraft.net/en-us . Don't think of this as "how do I get my daughter the computer experience I remember from old, shrink-wrapped boxed PC games", get her access to Minecraft as if you're a non-techy, let her figure her own way out.
Once she has a basis for her tech skills, and is curious about technology, that's the time to start showing her things under the hood.
- warner25 3y agoYeah, I was looking at that page before, and that generated some of my questions. Like I see two different price points, and both have "Java Edition" and "Bedrock Edition," whatever that means, but it looks like maybe the higher-priced option is only applicable to Windows(?). Does playing on Windows result in a much better experience? We do have an old laptop running Windows 10 too. What's the Launcher? A bunch of the Flathub flatpaks appear to be different launchers.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoJava is more feature packed and has a modding community so vibrant you can't even imagine, but the Windows edition is faster out of the box and has better crossplay with whatever her friends will be playing on. You can mod Java edition to work well on old laptops though.