Hi Norman, On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 09:50 +0000, norman wrote: > I am contemplating buying my 9 year old granddaughter a new PC for > Christmas. Presently, she has a fairly old PC and has been using Windows > both at home and at school.
I have a policy of not supporting Windows on friends and families computers. There are a couple of exceptions to this, but I won't take on new people and certainly wont touch vista. The reason I mention this is because one of the exceptions is my sister who has 3 daughters. They have a PC which I supplied them with XP installed. I didn't give them Ubuntu because the girls wanted to play a lot of (non-educational) games on it that I knew would not work under WINE. I also know that the thought of installing them inside a Windows virtual machine under Linux would be too difficult for them, and the PC wasn't beefy enough to do that anyway, and under a VM the guest has no access to the 3D hardware. I also didn't dual boot because I'd be pretty sure that the Linux partition would probably not get used that much. > (I hear cries of shame). She is of course > familiar with Ubuntu when she uses my machine and it would be my > intention to wean her onto Ubuntu on her new machine. Where I need > advice is in selecting the best way to enable her to join in with her > classmates, if and when she may need to, with regard to such things as > educational games and suchlike which do not play on Linux. > I am in a similar quandary with my own daughter. She is 4 and has just started school this term. In school they have a windows PC in the classroom on which she plays various educational games. At home she rarely uses a computer at all. She has done a little typing here and there and played some online flash games, but not much more than that. I have ordered a couple of Asus Eee PCs, one for my wife to use and one for Sophie. I wanted to get something small and lightweight which runs "normal" software. I have just called the school to get a list of all the software that Sophie uses, and if it's any good I'll see if I can get it working under WINE, or get someone to write an alternative in python so everyone can benefit :) Hope that helps. Cheers, Al.
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