| I am a teen myself so I think that I might be of help but when in 8th grade my brothers had given me a computer, they had that specifically without much of a gpu (intel integrated gpu ftw) I always knew how to code beforehand as compared to my peers but still I wanted to go into finance, so, at first, I used to use valorant for many hours. funny thing is that I started to use linux only because valorant was being incredibly slow (to the point of 10fps) and then I realized valorant had kernel level access and I was getting into privacy (I started to not trust the governments and institutions so much in general regarding Snowden etc.) That privacy eventually made me realize the valorant kernel level root access and how there was no way to verify it except reinstalling my OS. so I realized that if I had to reinstall my OS, I would install Linux (I was watching the linux experiment videos) I installed nobara as my first OS which was still for gaming but I loved linux so much and it felt really customizable as compared to windows and that made me want to script and also code with archlinux/cachy and others :-D So TLDR: I do believe that in your use case, perhaps have your computer be maxed out in everything except GPU, or something similar? Also personally I believe that it all depends on situation but if you are so worried about the addiction then I recommend giving the child a good PC except GPU (I think my cousins might've been too for me in some sense when I was in 8th grade which I do understand their worries so there's that) so would your child be okay with a good PC without GPU with otherwise good PC? I don't know about parenting and there are other @captainzidgel and @dabinat who have advices stating that he is unlikely to change so much with the gaming addiction so there's that too. Edit: I also think that your child might be interested in robotics/arduino/rasp-pi too and there is this activity too which you can do with 3d-printing etc. too |