This past week my sister has been asking my parents for a computer. I told them of an old computer that we had sitting in our storage room and that I could build it up as a machine for her. We had an extra license for Windows XP but I decided that we’d try something new for her. So I installed a copy of Edubuntu Linux for her computer. Did I mention that she’s 9 years old?
I really didn’t need to show her anything. She mostly plays games on the internet and she figured out quickly where the little launch icon is for Firefox. However, she did call me up asking me how she could write a “rough draft” for a book that she wanted to write. She didn’t know where Microsoft Word was. I explained over the phone that there’s this great tool called OpenOffice.org. I showed her how to get to it and off she goes with it.
I am terribly excited for her. She’s 1 up’d the rest of my family. She is the first one out of all of us to use Linux as her sole operating system (including me, I’ve been dual booting MacOS and Ubuntu Linux lately). I’m gonna be following up with her to make sure that she’s using it. But so far she really likes it. She especially likes Compiz. In her words, it’s “Awwesooome!”