[xiaomai]

Honestly, it's been pretty great. In general it's not something we think about much? Internet/chatting with friends/video games all just work (in terms of video games, they're mostly doing minecraft or pico-8 games... we try not to do _too_ much gaming anyway, but anything else they're doing is probably on the nintendo switch).

My daughter recently has started to do more artwork on the computer (she's using a Wacom tablet with Krita). I don't know much about that world. Maybe there are way better tools and she'll want to switch to one of those in the future? (Is that an ipad? some Adobe software?). I figure as they get older and develop their own opinions we can revisit what types of computers/software they use, but for now things are going good.

[darknavi]

I've never thought about having kids run a linux box, but as a non-linux daily driver I think it'd be quite interesting.

Looking back on my youth I think I'd be concerned with my kids installing bloatware, malware, etc. I feel like that whole genre of software would be much more challenging to install, which leaves me at two outcomes:

1) They don't install bloatware/malware. Excellent! 2) They figure out how to install bloatware/malware. Still pretty great as that means they are learning their environment.

I think being technically literate with your daily driver computer is crucial to daily success, so either way I think kids would do fine.

[hkt]

I can second this: my darling offspring has a raspberry pi and thrives on it - he has never used OSX or Windows. Just Android (on a tablet) and Raspbian.