[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