Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

What are the benefits/drawbacks of using this vs. actually running Windows 95 or XP?

I'm assuming the PC will be mostly used for "educational software" (games), which you would want to run on XP. What benefit is there to running Fedora?

Fedora is a modern Linux desktop distribution with active development and support for modern softwares. While using an old OS such as Windows XP is a huge security risk, with very minimal possibilities of running modern softwares. Even major browsers like Firefox and Chrome won't run on XP anymore.

95 and XP are different in terms of software selection.

Linux Benefits: Security patches (safety), software updates (convenience), hardware support, freedom, and privacy. Not to mention a modern browser, terminal, TLS, and filesystems like exfat.

Fedora runs Wine as well. Maybe not every 95/XP program will run, but I'd guess a lot of them do. You could also run the others in Virtual Box when needed.

Ok, but you don't need any of that if you're just running 1990s/2000s Windows educational software on an air gapped OS with no Internet access, which is what you would want for this application.

Why would you want to mess around trying to get programs to half work on Wine when you can just have the real thing?

If you want your kid to have a web browser for educational purposes, I feel like you had probably might as well just hand them the iPad.

Well, this is a modern OS capable of running modern software, for starters.

It's just Linux with a Win95-lookalike theme.

Why tie up a whole machine/desk-space for something so niche? Probably a big 90s/2k sized desktop at that.

For kids, I would suggest a mid 2000s ASUS netbook.