Using xmonad to transition kids from CLI to GUI

John Goerzen, Debian/GNU Linux developer, transitions his kids from bash to xmonad: “I’d been debating how to introduce GUIs for a very long time. It has not escaped my attention that children that used Commodores or TRS-80s or DOS knew a lot more about how their computers worked, on average, than those of the same age that use Windows or MacOS. I didn’t want our boys to skip an entire phase of learning how their technology works.” I decided long ago that my kids – if I ever have them, I’m undecided and way too young – will learn computing the way I learned it: with a CLI. I never realised an xmonad setup would form a good transition phase into GUIs.

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