Check the user interface. Every ubuntu Linux will work with Minecraft and similar out of the box but the environment could be challenging for some.
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That's true, but not in our case. They have a couple of years already on Linux.
So not an issue. My kids are on win10 for school and mint for the rest
Mine came from MacOS. Elementary was their first Linux, but only for a short period of time. They discovered that desktops could be different and started experimenting 🙃
Great. Is a bit they will know more than you
When talking about ricing, I've already lost. And my oldest is already trying to break my parental control set up. The immutable nature of fedora silverblue has been quite good at protecting it. Nevertheless, requirements change and now it's becoming more of an obstacle rather than a help.