[jordache]

think about barrier of entry.

Your anecdotal life story of overcoming early challenges with linux, that benefited your subsequent career is likely not scalable to the entire human population.

I think any reasonable person will align with the notion that low barrier of entry, coupled with an engaging curriculum to grow their level of computing expertise, will net much greater success.

[offtop5]

But why not. The worst thing that happens is maybe a teacher needs to reflash the OS, if you tell kids that no we're not going to play Minecraft today, we're going to make Minecraft you can inspire a lifelong love of programming.

Sometimes you just got to strap yourself in and embrace the the terminal. If you're too afraid to try you'll never learn. Once around the same time I actually fried a motherboard by not mounting it properly, a nice computer repair shop owner gave me a bunch of motherboard spacers for free and told me to never Mount the motherboard directly to the case again.

I actually love programming in that it's one of the last Fields where you can teach yourself how to do amazing things for free. Sure if you need to deploy things you might need to spend two or three bucks a month on AWS, but even then you can get so much done locally.

[jordache]

You need a carrot at the end of the stick.

Ramp up the complexity, with appropriate award system, to help with engagement.

Your retroactive approach is saying - gosh, if I had my present day wisdom when I was I kid, then imagine all tactical things I can learn like apt or vim. I'm saying that is not a sustainable approach given a dataset that is the human population.

[offtop5]

Actually I'm trying to say the opposite, I knew nothing when I was a kid. There was something awesome about getting your Wi-Fi driver to work after fighting it for 3 hours. It was very awesome struggle with Linux as a kid, not everything needs to be easy