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I was just playing around with Sugar in a VM and it reminded me so much of how the earliest GUIs on a Mac as a kid felt. In general I've been kind of struggling
by geogra4 7y ago
I was just playing around with Sugar in a VM and it reminded me so much of how the earliest GUIs on a Mac as a kid felt. In general I've been kind of struggling to how to introduce my kids to computing. They're at the age now where they ask about it and see me on the computer and want to be part of it.
Sugar seems to be a good introduction - one of the best that's just not just a normal linux distro with a bunch of edu apps thrown in.
- josinalvo 7y agoHow do you feel it compares to "just a normal linux distro with a bunch of edu apps thrown in"?
- geogra4 7y agoOther options with more 'kid friendly' UIs like UKnow4Kids, Educado, DoudouLinux, or Leeenux Kids just seem to have stopped development many years ago. Something like Edubuntu isn't really appropriate for small children - it's a little too complicated. I don't think the UI is perfect, fwiw
- radicaldreamer 7y agoI think the standard Linux Gnome or KDE UI is probably better for kids to learn than Sugar, primarily because the learning curve to transition to any other computing interface is pretty high because Sugar's UX is really poor.
- ObscureScience 7y agoI'm kind of betting on EndlessOS.