My Three Year Old, the Linux user
Posted by Eitan Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:53:00 GMT
Who said Linux was too hard? My 3-yr old son, Arik, has been running Ubuntu on his laptop since December. He's a very happy user. Every once in a while he'll ask me to help him figure out why something's not working right, but most of the time, he works alone.
He sits at his ubuntu desktop, and can launch a variety of games, including GCompris, SuperTux, Tux Racer, Tux Kart, Slune, and many others.
I'm particularly proud of these facts:
over a few weeks, he's gotten as good as me (actually in some ways better than me) at SuperTux. that's no mean feat.
he recently figured out Frozen-Bubble
he recently figured out SolarWolf, a most addictive and wonderful games, though difficult for really young people.
he's a whiz with the arrow keys
he doesn't know how to read but he's got the entire SuperTux menu hierarchy figured out. He can start a game, pick levels, pause a game, exit out of one level and go to another, picking out the correctly indexed option in the menu hierarchy
he can launch and quit apps all on his own
he loves Tux!
All this he's achieved by himself, with no help from me, and in a pretty short time.
Finally, when I ask him to practice his letters, he'll be considerate of me and launch GCompris's letter-identification game.
