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How old is your kid? I don't see why they'd have much interest in a command line interface or have any need to learn how to use one that young.

Install Linux Mint, download GCompris. It'll teach your kid how to learn the mouse and keyboard in a minimally stimulating way.

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Kids at 5 love writing. My kids used to do it just for the keyboard emoji that pops up, then they'd get obsessed with writing things like "dog" or "red car" in Google image search.

Five and a half. He has already learned the mouse by drawing, and keyboard by playing a little with a text-to-speech system on my machine.

I believe the interest is there even for a command-line interface.

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