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Your comment reminds me of an old The Onion headline.
"Father Makes Son Hate Fishing By Teaching Him To Do It The Right Way."
You aren't the lad's parent. The actual parent asked for advice. I gave my opinion.
And yes, within reason I think you should let a 6 year old do what they want with their free time.
You aren't too. I gave my opinion as well.
You have lot of assumptions about how the parents raise and teaches their kids. I think the parents should teach and bring the tech to the kid, because the parents think its a good thing. From there it can go any way. Without trying you wouldn't know. I think we both should let the parents parenting the kid and not assume anything more than the question. Let the parent show the kid some Linux stuff.
I think this is a good preparation for the future, so it does not become too much dependent on Windows and knows difference and strength of Linux early on, so it can make his own choice. Parent does not force here, just teaches some stuff. I don't know why you have a problem with that.
tl, dr.
Why would anyone care what you say then?
If you don't care what I say, why would you ask a question?