Yep, this is good as well. Use whatever suits the needs best, but I'd try and get him leaning towards the FOSS side - use other OSes only if you have to.
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IMO, his aproach was too strict, that's why it failed and just caused repulsion towards Linux. There are other ways you can "make" children like things.
Wow, just WOW πππ.
I wish there were more teachers like you in schools. Inspired people, in general... that's what's lacking in society nowadays π.
Thanks, I try βΊοΈ.
It was hard for me at first, grasping how to bring up and educate him... it didn't come naturally for me. But my mom was a lot of help, she gave me a lot of pointers and I just started building on that π.
Have you tried to replicate this behavior in Windows? Try it with a spare drive, see if you get the same irrational thing happening in Windows. If it happens, yeah, it's a hardware problem π... most probably bad caps. Bad batch maybe, even though it's only 2 years old, who knows.
It's somewhat like Firefox used to be, cuztomizable UI and all that... a lot of menus with UI tweaks that just make your browser your own and make your life easier... it brings back what was taken from us when FF made some drastic changes.
Customization wise, a lot. Speed wise, none at all (it's slower any way you slice it). Compatibility wise (with websites), the same as Chrome, everything works.
I also think the main takeaway they should have out of it is that there's many ways of doing the same thing and none is "the correct and only way". They should learn to think critically, navigate unfamiliar user interfaces, learn some more general concepts and connect the dots on how things work, and that computers are logical machines, they don't just do random things because they're weird. Teach them the value of being able to dig into how it works even if it doesn't necessarily benefit them immediately.
This will come gradually. First, show him one way of doing things, let it sink in, let him get comfortable with it, then say "you know, you could do that in another way as well π". I bet he'll start asking you if there are other ways as well in no time π.
Yes, he'll just drop into Steam when something gets too hard to acomplish. I wouldn't use the deck as a learning tool as well.
You don't want to be the weird dad that insists on using stuff nobody else does, you have to show them what's cool about it, and also accept maybe they'll just stick with Windows for now.
This π. Be weird, but be cool at the same time. None of the other dads can do this, but yours can π¦Έ βΊοΈ... and, he can teach you how to do a lot more cool stuff as well π.
Yeah, but the kid has to be older, 12 is too young for that IMO.
Still, a Linux install with a DE will do nicely. He wants to do this and this, but there is no GUI for it, tell him to open up the terminal and type in the following commands, see what happens after you hit Enter... it always brings a smile, even with adults βΊοΈ, they feel like they're hackers or something π.
Then they usually wanna know what each of the commands and options do, and this is where I know I have a great student βΊοΈ.
Mine would be laughing their asses off... add shit like "you should've put some cream on it and a cherry π€£π€£π€£".