http://u2d.com/articles/2006/02/04/my-three-year-old-the-linux-user en-us 40 <p>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.</p> <p>He sits at his ubuntu desktop, and can launch a variety of games, including GCompris, SuperTux, Tux Racer, Tux Kart, Slune, and many others.</p> <p><img src="/fam/arik_cpu.png" alt="Arik at his Computer"/></p> <p>I'm particularly proud of these facts:</p> <ul> <li><p>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.</p></li> <li><p>he recently figured out Frozen-Bubble</p></li> <li><p>he recently figured out SolarWolf, a most addictive and wonderful games, though difficult for really young people.</p></li> <li><p>he's a whiz with the arrow keys</p></li> <li><p>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</p></li> <li><p>he can launch and quit apps all on his own</p></li> <li><p>he loves Tux!</p></li> </ul> <p><img src="/fam/arik_tux.png" alt="Arik with Tux"/></p> <p>All this he's achieved by himself, with no help from me, and in a pretty short time.</p> <p>Finally, when I ask him to practice his letters, he'll be considerate of me and launch GCompris's letter-identification game.</p> Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:53:00 -0600 urn:uuid:b0d400d145f819a7cd92d6b40b847288 Eitan http://u2d.com/articles/2006/02/04/my-three-year-old-the-linux-user Computers