• taiyang@lemmy.world
    122·
    9 hours ago

    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.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        1·
        2 hours ago

        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.

        • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          18 minutes ago

          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.