I agree. My 8-year-olds are using Mint without any problems.

XFCE and Cinnamon are perfectly customizable for their needs.

They don't need the gigantic icons the "kid-linux" flavours come with....they're young, not blind.

Calling X10 home automation is like calling CATV the Internet.

X10 is hardly useful in any retrofit jobs since old wiring is typically bad, at best.

Some better options are RF for those of you who don't want to break much drywall or, ideally, running CATV to every switch in your house if you want the real deal. Plus distributed audio, video, security, etc all integrated. Lets see your X10 do that. No, I'd rather not.