Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Sun, 25 May 2025 14:42:53 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 5/25/25 04:10, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

But Your point was well hidden. Because it looked like you consider a
new Linux user must discover and know everything before being able to
use Linux for the first time.

 
That is why we have Linux Users Groups, to help new users learn

about

the
FOSS tools available and suitable for their machines and level of
skills. In 2006 I had problem with getting my Mandriva online so I joing
San Francisco Linux USers Group ask SF-LUG and got plenty of free advice
some of it bad but I survived.
I easily transition from AmigaOS 3.9 to Windows XP to Linux with KDE
version 3.9.5.
 
Lack of Interest slowed the group down considerably around 2019

but

Covid
ended the meetings in person.  I found it by searching on Linux users
groups in San Francisco. Taat searching might work for other areas. We
had one meeting in person just before Covid Delta began to spread.  Now
we meet online which is harder for newbies to accesss.

That may work in San Francisco. There was a short lived group here but it
was people already using Linux so we had to dream up topics to talk about.
I don't think it ever attracted a person interested in Linux.


it's not only Linux. In the '90s I found hams doing interesting, sort of
fringey, stuff in LA, Seattle, Phoenix, and other big metro areas. Here
the interest was mostly 2m handi-talkies before cellphones became
relatively inexpensive. Packet radio never made it past 1200 baud although
9600 was doable.

It's a numbers game.