What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let’s say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and recondite machine from some eldritch, enigmatic, cryptic and phantasmal world ?

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    19 hours ago

    I don’t know if this is a good idea, but I’ve been thinking of the idea of giving an old air-gapped computer with Linux to a potential young child of mine.

    Therefore, they can tinker around, play with educational software, maybe even learn some terminal stuff, all without the dangers of the Internet.

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      17 hours ago

      Configure it to have limited access and your kid will know everything in a week trying to unlock it

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        13 hours ago

        Time to chmod 000 every game on the system and have them figure out what file permissions are ;)