On 10 May 2013 10:02, James Tait <james.t...@wyrddreams.org> wrote: > > On 09/05/13 23:04, SuperEngineer wrote: > > just one final word (sentence)- my word "educate" was deliberate... > > get the kids using Linux, let them think it's 'normal'. > > I'm sure my boys' response to that would be "Why, isn't it?" > > JT >
Kids are impatient, they dont want to wait for things to happen, and generally they dont want to be bothered with installing a package or searching out equivalent application to get what they want, so when they google "how to do <something>" invariably the answers will all come back based on the most widely used operating system so they will say "why cant we just have a windows machine like our school / my mate steve etc" I can only speak from my personal experience, my kids are no strangers to different interfaces but they are not interested in bringing up a command shell to solve a problem and as this is not something seen commonly in the schools, so we'll end up with a lot of the next generation being more technology "consumers" than "creators" ... thats only my thoughts though. Mark
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