I'm setting up my old laptop for my little sister. She cant really into computers or English yet, but wants to learn...

Just give her an MS-DOS machine with Turbo Pascal and Doom installed.
*sips*
Letting kids use GUIs from day one makes them stupid.

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>Text editor
vim or gvim for a gtk interface
>File manager
thunar

uninstall firefox and install ungoogled chromium

Let her play osrs f2p runelite client and teach to read wiki for self help. She will learn effiency fast if you teach her at some point about it.

Install keepass. One password you can write it up so wont be forgotten. Generate passwords with keepass. She can save all logins to firefox.
Install addons to firefox.
paint.net or some alternative
libreoffice
Check alternativeto.com for software.

Will she get addictated to youtube or games? Dont let her binge eat.

>keepass
not a fan of password managers because logging into your shit on a different machine is a hassle
>games
not many games on linux. also the laptop is a piece of crap (see the OP pic)
>youtube
My dad blocked youtube at home. also the internet is literally 1Mbps, so you cant realy do any video streaming
>firefox addons
I have uBlock origin, smart https and decentraleyes. Anything else you would recommend?

Give her the talk about not putting her info on the internet, this is important. She needs to know just because it says you have to provide whatever doesn't mean anything and that people ask for too much info for a reason. Aka pedos, trannies, and scammers are everywhere.
You should give her basic lessons on computer usage.

Supertux, supertuxkart, tuxracer, etc. some games. Bejeweled clone, mystery, or whatever she normally likes. A simpler painting program maybe, you should go thru the installed programs and set options like single window in gimp. Remember to install user friendly applications.

thats the best part

Ubuntu 18.04

Do you have a smartphone?
Hows the mobile internet plans?
If they are cheaper than your home internet you could tether internet from your phone via usb/wifi so home internet plan becomes obsolete. If true maybe your father can understand and swap home internet plan to mobile internet plan.

Used galaxy S5 with newer than a 2.5 year battery should work great for this purpose and as a smartphone. Good phone.

I don't live with my parents anymore, so the internet doesn't apply to me. Also mobile internet plans have shit data limits.
The internet isn't really a problem tho. My family got used to it.

scat porn

okay, say hi to FBI everyone.

minetest, free minecraft that runs on anything.
please get a nicer wallpaper or let her pick one.
you should probably also change the start button, dont want her to conflate linux with windows too much.

>MS-DOS
It isn't even POSIX, what a useless piece of shit.

>gimp
dump gimp for krita, gimp is unusable
>Text Editor
gedit
>File Manager
thunar with thunar-volman and gvfs for automounting

>Arch Linux
>Advanced options for Arch Linux
>Also Arch Linux
Kek.
Anyone have the source? I didn't know that I needed that meme.

>minetest
I have tried running a cracked version of minecraft on the same machine before. 1.12 runs with 15fps, 1.13 with 5.
>wallpaper
of course she is free to pick a wallpaper. I'm going to encourage her to customize the system to her desires, because i think freedom of choice is an integral part of Linux
>start button
What should i change it to?
>krita
Any alternative that doesn't depend on qt? Also, I think I'll keep Gimp for editing, but a painting program could be useful
>gedit
I think I have settled on mousepad. It's literally 10% the size of gedit
>thunar
I'm not a fan of the Explorer.exe style file managers. The only filemanager she has even a bit of experience with is Total Commander on Windows, so I'd like an OFM
old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/bc5qzj/just_finished_setting_up_dual_boot/

>old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/bc5qzj/just_finished_setting_up_dual_boot/
Thnx mate, didn't expect the source that fast.

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Install gentoo

Get KDE or she'll vomit when she sees that

not sure, depends on what she likes
you could show her how to change it herself and help her pic something. if you really have no idea i'm sure theres a pixel arch logo somewhere

Np, I still remember what i searched for when making that wallpaper.
If I wanted a DE that ran with single digit fps i would just install Windows 7. Look at the fucking specs. I used that laptop myself so I know how fucking slow it is. Opening a browser takes the CPU to 100%. I don't need the DE doing that on its own.
>show her how to change it
That's what i was planning. Also encouraging her to Figure shit out herself.

Now I'm interested. I suggest you pick one of the more popular distros and simply give her daily lessons. She has a lot of new and exciting things to learn and I'm sure both of you will thoroughly enjoy the learning process.

That would be optimal, of course, But since I don't live with my parents anymore, it's not really feasible.
I actually don't want to help her too much, because I want her to learn problem-solving.

Let her use Windows. If she only has experience with Linux, she'll be fucked later in life, and it'll be your fault.

Windows 7 runs like shit on that laptop. It was the reason I started using Linux in the first place. And Windows xp is both shit on AMD64 and ancient.

Install retroarch on Ubuntu. It has an easy to use interface with a lot of emulators to download, she will have fun

What do you mean with text editor ? for coding, or just common text ? For common text i recommend libre office, for coding VS Code or Sublime Text

Anything from editing config files to taking notes or just pasting shit into. But I've already decided on using mousepad, the xfce editor see .

Ah ok, for games(if she likes) try etroarch like i said,its good

can i hug your sister? maybe rub her little tummy and go 'bbbrrr brrr brrr'' kawaiii desuu

Based and wholesomepilled

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She likes retro games, so I definitely will.
Also what would be best for automatically mounting drives? Personally I use devmon (udevil), but I haven't tried anything else.

Idk man, I never never used that kind of software

thunar's volume manager u brainlet

That depends on thunar tho. Which sucks btw, because it's not an orthodox, two-panel file manager.

Nice mullet, lad.

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weak
install this
window manager - i3
terminal - urxvt
browser - chromium
text editor - vim and vscode
file manager - ranger
office - libreoffice
pdf - zathura
image viewer - sxiv
music player - cmus
video player - mpv
archives - xarchiver
torrents - transmission

Just give the kid elementaryOS. Baby steps, its even in the name.

>google

If you dont care about proprietary garbage, you have microsoft office software in the browser so they also work on gnu/linux.

I just threw up writing that.

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