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Any experience with teaching kids Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by nayminlwin@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Any one here has any experience with teaching 8 to 12 years old kids Linux?

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[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you mean teach?

Just getting them to use it or teaching them terminal commands?

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My son's windows focused ICT curriculum is pissing me off a bit. So I guess what I wanna teach is something similar to what a kid's ICT text book would teach, except that it will be for Linux.

Huh, may be I should look for kid friendly linux books first.

[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what your - and your kid's - situation is, but I worry pushing Linux onto someone would be counterproductive to getting them to like it.

I only use it because I genuinely like and appreciate it. I'd probably start by getting him interested in it. If he likes it enough then he'll try and learn more by himself.

I recently got an LLM running locally on an AMD GPU. This was only possible on Linux. Depending on your son, something like that could be a cool way to get him interested.

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I also don't wanna push it too hard.

Gonna be hard though. He's way too into roblox these days.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me something about what card you used to run what llm? What is its performance?

There is so little out there about this.

[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I have an RX6800XT and I use KoboldCPP to run models I download off of Huggingface.

I'm not sure how many tokens per second it generates, probably about 10?

If you want to try it yourself here's a link to the Github page: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp