I’m thinking about building a desktop with one of my kids and I would really prefer to put Linux on it. My wife is not a fan of the idea, however.

I’m wondering are there any good Linux distros/utilities for children that include parental control features and things like that? And that are easy to use for a child who has only used basic Chromebooks in the past?

For reference the child is under 12.

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    5 months ago

    Wouldn’t this be a usecase for a immutable distro? Cannot really break it? But haven’t used one myself yet so not sure how that holds up.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      5 months ago

      Yes. And using restricting application access doesn’t really work with normal package managers, but is easy with flatpak.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      2·
      5 months ago

      If you dont have an admin account you cannot break the core system anyways.

      I agree that rpm-ostree based distros are awesome here, but Linux Desktops are not made to be locked down.