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Hi everyone! 

 

The TLDR of my situation is that I have built a PC of old parts (2nd gen i3 & gtx 550) to replace my afterschool kindergartners current/old system (an ancient dell running xp). I could try to clone their HDD to a newer drive, but wanted to see if anyone can suggest anything I can use for them. Obviously, the system wont have internet access and would prefer to solely be used to educational games, reading & typing practice, etc.; meaning whatever suite needs to be locked down to avoid the kids messing with settings and such. 

 

 

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install chome os on that. it will take a little effort for it to work, but that would make it almost imposible for kids to mess it up and it its very easy for kids to learn/operate. 

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4 hours ago, Saksham said:

install chome os on that. it will take a little effort for it to work, but that would make it almost imposible for kids to mess it up and it its very easy for kids to learn/operate. 

I was considering chromeos, but also recently discovered edubuntu. the only question with chrome os is if it has age-appropriate apps and such. I want it to be a "one stop" place for them to use it but have what they think is fun to also be productive (if that makes sense). 

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16 minutes ago, AngelOfBodom said:

I was considering chromeos, but also recently discovered edubuntu. the only question with chrome os is if it has age-appropriate apps and such. I want it to be a "one stop" place for them to use it but have what they think is fun to also be productive (if that makes sense). 

Another problem is that Chrome OS relies on internet access for it to really have any function since most things would be in the chrome browser. So of course this would go against the fact that you wanted it to not have internet access

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https://fossbytes.com/best-linux-distributions-kids-free-operating-system/

This is an article on versions of linux that are good with children. Additionally, you would likley be able to run some of these on the older machine as well  (have 2 systems running).

A side note:

I remember back in highschool my teacher got us to modify a version of linux that was commonly used in casino games to suit a classroom environment (casino games were secure with no internet access) that we then installed on 40 ~15 year old computers. If you want to put the time in this could work this could be viable but would take some time.

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39 minutes ago, AngelOfBodom said:

Hi everyone! 

 

The TLDR of my situation is that I have built a PC of old parts (2nd gen i3 & gtx 550) to replace my afterschool kindergartners current/old system (an ancient dell running xp). I could try to clone their HDD to a newer drive, but wanted to see if anyone can suggest anything I can use for them. Obviously, the system wont have internet access and would prefer to solely be used to educational games, reading & typing practice, etc.; meaning whatever suite needs to be locked down to avoid the kids messing with settings and such. 

 

 

I just came up with a good idea. What about you install a light weight version of Ubuntu like Lubuntu then after they get done with the educational games you teach how to use Linux and maybe even some coding like Python or Bash.

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33 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Another problem is that Chrome OS relies on internet access for it to really have any function since most things would be in the chrome browser. So of course this would go against the fact that you wanted it to not have internet access

 

52 minutes ago, AngelOfBodom said:

I was considering chromeos, but also recently discovered edubuntu. the only question with chrome os is if it has age-appropriate apps and such. I want it to be a "one stop" place for them to use it but have what they think is fun to also be productive (if that makes sense). 

chrome os can run all (or almost all) android apps. as well as chrome web store. 

chromeOS used to be useless without internet, but not so much anymore. think about all the things you can do in android apps without internet. 

 

ubuntu (or other linux distros) are drastically different from windows. it will have a steep learning curve for them and you

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