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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Just helped build my 12 year old cousin his first computer and was forced into putting Windows on it. Now, I get that it's important that he at least understand what the "normal OS" is, but I did want to put at least Mint or something on there. Zoomers and Alpha really don't know how to navigate even the basics, though, and this kid was no exception.
Well, technically I wanted to put something based on Arch but even I know that's a bad idea for a sink or swim computer moment.
What do you consider "the basics"? I regards to getting a 12 yr old started on Linux
The kid didn't know file systems and didn't even know not to just power off the system randomly. Granted, Linux plays by different rules and would arguably be easier in some regards, but yeah... walk before you can run.
Yeah, schools do not have tech literacy classes and it's devastating, this is why
I dunno how old you guys are but just in case... Schools never had good computing classes. When I was in school in the UK in the 90s we had MS Office lessons and that was about it.
Actually the UK took steps a few years ago to fixing that. Apparently they have actually computing classes now, but I don't have kids of the appropriate age in school yet so I don't know if it's really as good as we'd hope.
Estonia used to have solid school classes since 2000s and now offers programming pretty early, but overall tech literacy is at an all time low.
Is it really though? I'd need to see evidence of that before I believe it.
I have some teacher friends who get the broad avarage. Entire lessons get brought to a standstill since the avarage student can't even handle logging in.
I mean... that's how it was in the 90s too.
Maybe in your country, here its a downgrade.