How to Teach Linux to Children

Carrie Webb: Would you say, this just my own question Robbie. Robbie Ferguson: Sure Carrie Webb: That Ubuntu Linux is as easy to use like for kids learning to use a computer as Windows. Would you say it’s about the same? Robbie Ferguson: For kids? Carrie Webb: Like would you say it’s about the same, yeah, like when you’re teaching them how to use the computer. Robbie Ferguson: Well, as far the interface goes, it’s very much similar. I mean just lucky and we don’t want to make everything about Ubuntu but the interface is every similar other than we’ve gone through this before your start menu if you will or your application menu is at the top instead of the bottom. So that’s part to the grasp. You’re My Computer is places. So, it really depends because like you’re going to learn on this system anyways right? So if you are starting on Windows or you’re starting on Mac or you’re starting on Linux, you’re starting. So you’re going to have to learn anyways and that’s why some people get intimidated to switch because they’ve been using Windows say for a long time. Carrie Webb: Right. Robbie Ferguson: So they’re not sure how they’re going to cope with not having their same applications or things like that. But I think as far as a kid goes, like somebody who’s new to computers or I know even some elderly people who have started using their computers for the first time and that’s really cool to step into technology just like that. Carrie Webb: Yeah. Robbie Ferguson: And I find that people do tend to love using Linux or Windows. Carrie Webb: Either or, yeah. Robbie Ferguson: So but of course in the Linux we don’t have to worry about the viruses and that’s one of my big concerns. If I give my kids a computer, I don’t have to worry about them getting bombarded with spam and pornographic emails and things like that. So those are some of the things that I consider.