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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I never said the objective was to learn Linux. The objective is to use it.

Well you were replying to a comment of mine where the topic was teaching children linux.

You can get terminal access on a smartphone.

A child will never bother doing that.

You can also run Linux apps on ChromeOS now. It leverages containers from my understanding, a technology baked into the modern Linux kernel.

Yeah, I never said it couldn't.

No it’s not pedantic you are using a true scotsman fallacy.

It's not a true scotsman fallacy when neither chromeos nor android actively & openly advertise themselves as "Linux". Yes, they are linux and that has been acknowledged, but not advertised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is your bar seriously advertising? The mental gymnastics going on here is crazy. Yes it's a true scotsman fallacy. It doesn't matter if someone born in Scotland calls themselves Scottish or not, legally speaking they are still Scottish. That's how that works.

A child might not bother with the terminal on Linux Mint either. Does that mean Linux Mint isn't a real Linux now?

You also severely underestimate what children are capable of. I installed my first Linux distro, and taught myself HTML and CSS while still in primary school. I don't think you have any idea what children can do. I could probably outclass most adults with technology when I was 16 or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You also severely underestimate what children are capable of. I installed my first Linux distro, and taught myself HTML and CSS while still in primary school. I don’t think you have any idea what children can do. I could probably outclass most adults with technology when I was 16 or so.

Um, I started using linux on my own when I was 9-10ish years old. I know perfectly what a child is capable of. But an average child will not do that.