My 12 year old son decided he wanted to play with Linux. I told him about Tails, he researched it for an hour then put it on a usb stick. Now he’s learning a new operating environment.
Get him off qwerty
To what?
To whatever works
Keyboard layout is like caps/non-caps posting discussions: there will always be sides calling each other retarded. I stick with the dvorak keyboard layout, since 2004-ish. No regrets. No impediments.