Comment by bliti

My 7 year old is learning on a Raspberry Pi that does not load X by default. She gets around the terminal pretty well (changing, dirs, calling python scripts, etc.). The GUI is just overwhelming at this point. She prefers the terminal. In fact, she will boot it up and type:

    nano story.txt

To start writing simple stories (she loves doing that). And yes, she saves it by pressing Ctrl-x, y, and enter. :D