High Plains Thumper on Monday:
My kids were weaned on SuSE 6.4. My then 7 YO daughter and
12 YO son had a blast with playing games in Linux. For my
daughter, there are plenty of children's games to entertain,
sound and all. With my son, Loki Games games ported from
Windows were much smoother in video action and did not crash
(in contrast to Windows 98). Just as one IT school
administrator stated, it took the students about 10 minutes
to get acquainted with Linux.
KDE is very windows like and Gnome is easily navigated also.
Add Beryl and now we have 3D desktop without bloat. It
works beautifully.
These kids are lucky to have been raised in a family where
they get valuable computing skills. They won't become typists
and boot booters and their skills will not revolve around AV
software. Sadly, they won't have many coffee breaks either.
The PC will always be there in front of them, working
uninterruptedly for months.
/partly sarcastic, of course.