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My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think I want to meet a 12 year old who uses power point. Jk lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

They all use it if they want to pass school, so you are out of luck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, it's pretty much required in school. I had about 5 presentations each grade from late elementary through the end of high school

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well that explains why my job just expects me to know it without any warning... I'm almost 50, I have no problem learning new things if you tell me I need to, but when I was in school, computers were still luxuries...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i graduated after 2000 and was not expected to do so much as a single powerpoint presentation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kids spend a large amount of their school time copy/pasting from google images and wikipedia into powerpoint and have done so for a couple of decades in many schools.

It seems very likely the lack of hand writing and illustration creates a huge deficit in fine motor skills. And copy pasting is probably detrimental to comprehension and knowledge retention. As long as educators don't question the motivation of tech companies using their classrooms to expand mind share and view technology uncritically as some sort of magic nothing will change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of kids have to present their school projects etc using powerpoint or similar.