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The thing about this is that I know kids will hate it. They always want the thing parents don't want them to have.
by ninetyninenine 1y ago
The thing about this is that I know kids will hate it. They always want the thing parents don't want them to have.
- xyzzy123 1y agoI think it's "worse" than that. I have at different times put out windows, mac & rpi as "lounge computer" used by kids (5, 7, 9 and their friends) and their main complaint with rpi is DRM issues, that's pretty much it. Kids who have used multiple devices understand they can physically look different and the things you click on are in different places. Also updates can move stuff around. Things are just randomly different sometimes for fundamentally un-knowable reasons. The operating system primarily exists to provide a button that launches a web browser; computers as a skill is ability to open the things you want despite bad ui/ux. A browser is a thing that if you type in "crazygames" lets you play games. The other important buttons / magic words are "netflix" / "disney" / "youtube". Spotify also a core request. Median child (<12) doesn't know what an operating system is, advanced kids will know about "apple" being different from "windows" but usually won't have a coherent mental model of why that would be. Engineer's kids know what Linux is.