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I think that modern OS GUI has helped increase productivity. Not giving your kids exposure to a modern OS means that your kid would be playing catch up with oth
by jasimq 14y ago
I think that modern OS GUI has helped increase productivity. Not giving your kids exposure to a modern OS means that your kid would be playing catch up with other kids when exposed to one, say, in school.
A person's job prospects may also be limited if they don't know, or are not comfortable with, what the majority uses
- scribu 14y agoYou can get familiar with a mainstream operating system pretty fast so I don't find the "they'll lag behind" argument too convincing. If you can learn how to run first, it should be pretty darn easy to learn how to walk afterwards.
- ef4 14y agoWe're talking about a five-year-old here. I think it's absurd to think that any of us know what a mainstream productivity OS is going to look like by the time it affects his "job prospects". At that age, what matters isn't any of the material learned. It's the attitudes and self-conceptions that matter. If a five-year-old learns that he likes telling computers what to do and that he can get steadily better at it by exploring, that's a huge win for his future.
- jgoerzen 14y agoThe last version of Windows I used seriously was 3.1. Last winter, I suddenly had to fix problems in Windows Server 2008. I may have been a bit slow, but yes, I can fix an OS I've never used. If you have a good knowledge base, and the experience to provide a good intuition, you can figure them out. I would, incidentally, consider Debian to be a modern OS, and a CLI to be a modern UI. If they can string together commands in bash, I'm sure they'll be just fine with Windows.