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could have dual boot / vm / live cd / separate restricted account / SOMETHING just for grandkids.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The prevailing thought is that the grandkids were the culprits in trashing Windows in the first place. Once is enough. Now they can adapt and learn something new, or do without. If they are resourceful, they'll figure out how defeat Linux by installing a copy of Windows (that they don't have, and probably can't afford). If they are <i>very </i>resourceful they will figure out how to gain root access on boot, and elevate their own privileges on the machine. The grandchild wants to be a game programmer, so this may be a push in the right direction. </div>
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remember windows data & people to exchange data with.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>LibreOffice should cover most of the office-releated overlap. Since this is not a work machine, and would not be used for advanced gaming, I doubt anyone will miss not having "Windows" installed. </div>
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