[izacus]

The question is not as much shelf life, as whether you want your kids to be builders or consumers.

[carlosjobim]

Do you want your kids to play the piano or repair the piano?

Should they learn to drive a car or repair a car.

Etc.

[DANmode]

If my kids play or drive, and can’t eventually tune the instrument or put air in the tires of the car, I’ll be disappointed.

[carlosjobim]

No piano player can tune their instrument, they call in professionals. It's quite difficult.

Putting air in the tires is on the level of charging the battery.

But messing with drivers and config files and antivirus and RAM - that's not being creative or productive, that's being used by the machine instead of using the machine.

No specialist knowledge should be needed to use a computer, and thankfully Apple is providing that experience for people who are interested in what the computer can do for them. I remember when hardware had to be configured with COM ports and whatnot. Networks had to be configured with gateways and masks and whatnot. What a nightmare.

[DANmode]

Got me. I want them to know the piano needs tuning.

If you’re a developer and can’t diagnose a broken Ethernet port on the dock for your MacBook, I’m (perhaps silently) disappointed in you.

[vermilingua]

You can put Linux on Macbooks, you can build on macOS.

[TheDong]

You cannot run Linux on the macbook neo at the time of writing, unless you mean in a VM, and the processor + memory are barely enough to reasonably manage that. Even a mid-sized rust project, or a nixos build, would OOM for a VM.

[embedding-shape]

Environments foster certain behaviors, even restrictions foster certain behaviors, sometimes the opposite of what you try to restrict. There are no right answers :)