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Any one here has any experience with teaching 8 to 12 years old kids Linux?

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But the deck can also be used for gaming with zero tinkering, so kids will do that.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But when the time comes and the kid needs to write some assignments for school, you can be like Your Steam Deck can do that too, have a look at what this dock does

Imagine if handheld gaming is all they've ever used it and known it for, and all of a sudden you show them than it can be a full desktop experience, too

My mind would've been blown back when I was a kid

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Your Steam Deck can do that too, have a look at what this dock does

Ah, of course 👍. Maybe like let him do the first few on his laptop and then be like "you know you can do that on the steam deck, right 😏" 😁.

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I love Linux gaming. Got the Steam deck for my SO. She kind of hates it BECAUSE it's not a no tinker device.

Like if you pick the right games you're good, but want to play the "wrong" game, or want to mod, and your back to tinkering.

I don't mind it at all, it's just what PC gaming has been for me my whole life, but for her, someone who only experienced gaming on newer consoles it's a pain in the tush.