问 HN：适合儿童的优秀入门操作系统？
2 分•作者: kqr•5 个月前
我的大孩子现在阅读已经不再那么费力了，我想着是时候给孩子们介绍电脑了。<p>我脑海中的想法是，从一个离线的、最基础的命令行界面开始，然后我们逐渐学习文件管理，也许还能学点其他东西，趁着它还很新鲜。等孩子对电脑足够熟悉了，我们再安装 X 或 Wayland，或者其他什么。这主要是为了让他们在一个相对安全的环境中开始，直到他们表现出能够驾驭更多东西的能力。<p>我的问题是：<p>(1) 这是个好主意吗？我知道他们很可能一上小学就会接触到 Windows，但我不太担心他们会落后于同龄人。<p>(2) 哪个操作系统比较合适？我最初看中了 NetBSD，但后来我了解到它的非图形界面不支持 Unicode，这可能是一个决定性的障碍，因为我们的母语使用非 ASCII 字符。[1]<p>我仍然倾向于 BSD，因为它会比 Linux 发行版更像一个完整的、独立的操作系统，但我愿意被说服。<p>[1]: 并不是说我打算本地化操作系统，但我猜我们会从创建用我们自己的语言写的小消息的文件开始。
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My oldest child is now reading without incommensurable effort, and this is the time I imagined I would introduce computers to my children.<p>I have in my mind the idea that I start them off from an offline barebones command-line interface, and then we gradually learn file management and maybe other things in that environment while it is still shiny. At some point the child is familiar enough with the computer that we install X or Wayland or whatever it may be. This is mainly in order to start them off in a fairly safe environment until they have shown they are able to handle more.<p>The questions I have are:<p>(1) Is this a good idea? I'm aware they'll probably run into Windows as soon as they enter elementary school, but I'm not too concerned they'd fall behind their peers.<p>(2) Which OS would be a good fit? I had my sights set on NetBSD at first, but then I learned its non-graphical interface does not support Unicode, which is probably a dealbreaker since our native language uses non-ASCII characters.[1]<p>I'm still leaning toward a BSD because it would be more of a complete, stand-alone operating system than a Linux distribution, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.<p>[1]: Not that I'm planning to localise the OS, but I suspect we'd start off creating files with little messages in our own language.