Ask HN: Good Starting OS for Children?

Re:Ask HN: Good Starting OS for Children? by ferguess_k on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:12PM (#44685555)

I want to experiment DOS loaded with some games, so my son will need to use dir, mkdir and etc. I think it's easy for a small kid and we will see.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Starting OS for Children? by kqr on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:24PM (#44687984)

I wanted to avoid DOS because the CLI knowledge earned there is not as transferable to a Unix system (which would be more practically useful in the future), but you're right in that it comes with some benefits too.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Starting OS for Children? by ferguess_k on Monday July 28, 2025 @07:30AM (#44709777)

It's a fair argument. The reason I chose DOS is mostly for the games. I can definitely teach him to launch DOSBOX from Linux though, so that would give him a bit of exposure to Linux CLI.

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