Hi, I'm a long-time Linux user (over 10 years), father and IT professional. My children, aged 6-12, are well used to using Linux. I've just installed edubuntu 12.04.
My immediate impression is "what is the difference between this and ubuntu?" - to be honest I can't find any! I think a casual user would give edubuntu about 5 minutes before deleting it. I know what I'm doing, and I got pretty frustrated! Why? Well, the reason I installed it was to give my children an environment filled with educational games and things they need for school. Instead, they get the Unity bar filled with standard office and system settings icons. Finding the educational programs is not possible without knowing what you're looking for. All I could find is gCompris (and which casual user would guess that!?), and that I found by the totally unintuitive "Dash home" -> "Show all applications". I do think this could be easily fixed. 1. Put educational icons on the unity bar by default. 2. Provide a grouped lit of educational tools in the Application list. That seems easy, I hope it can be done for future releases. Cheers, al.
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