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irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

that sounds horrible.

PSA: Never run random powershell scripts from the Internet unless you know exactly what they are doing

Just tossing this out there, if your son hasn't seen it yet, show him Portal. I showed it to my son when he was starting to get into computers and its still one of his favorites in college.

I don't know if this still holds but, my experience is that minecraft works arguably better on linux

You can show him the wonders of 3rd party FOSS linux minecraft launchers like polymc.

You can also be a good parent and not introduce him to a modded gaming addiction.

This is like the trolley prolem all over again.

Switch over to Luanti instead of Minecraft😉

the only computer user?!

My son was convinced to use Linux by wobbly windows.

Although he does have a second SSD now with Windows to be able to play the big popular multiplayer game of the day with his friends. But they are back on Minecraft often enough.

Oh dam, I just watched a vid yesterday about the different distros "Every Linux Distro Explained in 13 minutes" (obviously very very superficial) I'll see if I can find it in my history and post a link to it for you. there were at least 1 or 2 for "really old" hardware. I will change the name to a link when I get to my pc

Edit: added link

How old are we talking? The nvidia open-source drivers dropped support for everything prior to the 20-series i think? but the closed-source nvidia drivers still support older cards.

Is there no option to use the igpu? Or you need the dgpu for some reason?

You can run a new distro with an old kernel, I used to do that with slackware. you can get similar 10 year support (after kernel.org lts ends) for the kernel if you take it from rhel/rocky linux

What Headset are you using? I use ALVR and find it as reliable as Windows was.

That was the reason I installed win11 some time ago, only to realise that wmr would only work on 10, but after updates that wasn't the case either.., Linux it is then