Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but why not just preinstall all the games?
I prefer keeping kid away from package management
besides the fact that some games' setup in ScummVM, Wine or Dosbox
may be quite not trivial.
In the old days when I didn't know about Debian, Mandriva was looking
attractive but nowadays I wouldn't recommend it because it would mean
a lot less flexibility.
Did you compare amount of games available in Debian and Mandriva?
What's the numbers?
Does Mandriva make any sense if it have no game you like when Debian have it?
It appears to me that least important criteria was used for choosing a
distribution.
There are also some benefits of having the same GNU/Linux on all home computers.
Synaptic is not so difficult after all and maybe all the effort ant
time spent for experimenting with package managers could be better
spent for teaching and training?
If choosing between spending time together with kid helping to learn
how to install software
and spending time with impaired GNU/Linux distributions
the first seems to be a better investment of time.
Regards,
Dmitry.
On 3 July 2011 10:08, Steven Tucker <tux...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>Thus spake Steven Tucker:
>>> For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware that
>>> I have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian (wheezy) and
>>> we both absolutely love it. The problem is it does not come with
>>> something like software center on KDE, and he is not about to start
>>> using apt! (least not till next year).
>>
>>Can you not run software-center on Kubuntu or am I missing something
>>obvious here?
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> If Kubuntu ran on his machine this thread probably would not have occurred.
> The part I think you may have missed above was the line
> "For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware that I
> have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian"
>
> We ended up settling on Mandriva, my son is able to keep it up to date and
> install software through easy gui tools. It installed easily, everything
> worked and with the PLF repo's we have everything we could want software
> wise. I have found urmpi to be a capable alternative to apt. I'm so impressed
> actually, I am considering making the move on my workstation.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tuxta
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