Maybe Krita is better than Gimp for generic drawing / painting ?

Quoting: AcrophobicShe also hates FPS or any game with high motion speed since apparently it make her dizzy. She also a bit struggling with 3D games like Minecraft.

I'm a grown adult and first-person games make me feel sick unless they're very abstract (i.e., GoldenEye 007, Minecraft, Bendy and the Ink Machine), so I can relate! :dizzy:

Games-wise, the first one that springs to mind for me is SuperTux, because I've never set up a Linux box without installing it. In my experience, it's easy enough for that age-group to pick up, though of course there's the downsides that it's not yet finished and that the difficulty-curve isn't always the smoothest... It runs decently on a Raspberry Pi 4, so I'm guessing that an older x86 PC wouldn't have any issues with it.

Would the terminal-based BSD Games package be of interest? Some of those are quite accessible since they only use simple inputs and usually aren't fast-moving. My own favourites here are the money-chase game Snake, the classic eat-yourself-to-death game Worm, and the computerised versions of Hangman and Boggle - though unfortunately Boggle can allow words that you might not want youngsters asking about, and it will display all words that you missed when you finish a round. Perhaps there are more suitable graphical versions of some of these available, though? (I've never needed to look!)

Quoting: furaxhornyxMaybe Krita is better than Gimp for generic drawing / painting ?

Or Tux Paint, also? :smile:

Hello;

A little while back there was a discussion on games for kids (around that age range)

link

I'll also add:
A Short Hike - it's a very chill expiration game. You might have to help with the text depending on reading skill.

My 6yo absolutely loves Minecraft. Mostly plays creative and makes houses and obstacle courses. A lot of it she gets from watching let's plays and streamers on YouTube (and her older brother helps with some of the text).

Probably by far her favorite game.

My brother and I build computers for most of the young kids of our family this is what we install by default

Unless the kid has a OS preference we install POP OS

* Firefox with Ublock Origins, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger extensions
* Chromium Browser with Ublock Origins, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger extensions
* itch.io
* Steam
* Lutris
* Wine
* Minetest with mob mods, texture mods
* Teeworlds
* AssaultCube - My family has it's own server for playing with each other
* Stadia - Weblink via Chromium
* GeoForceNow - Weblink via Chromium
* TeamViewer - So that we can support them from afar
* FreeRDP - So that we can support them from afar
* Pico 8 - Coding, art and music making software

My family (immediate and extended) like to keep the kids playing offline til 13ish but even then we try to game as a family together with cousins and what not looking after one another. We run our own servers for a lot of games. We tend to let them play solo and with strangers after 13 and 14 if they are on top of their stuff.

If you have something like that going on, you should web-link their chat systems like Hangouts an such. We are currently moving to discord but it's been a slow process. Everyone in the fam is on Google Chat/Hangouts.

Last edited by Mezron on 2 Apr 2022 at 3:06 pm UTC

Set it up with a good blacklisting hosts file against adult content.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/porn/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sinfonietta/hostfiles/master/pornography-hosts