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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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 😏" 😁.