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
    10•2 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.

    • Responsabilidade
      14•2 months ago

      I bet that a kid with no root access or sudo permission couldn’t break any Linux system, immutable or not…

    • MentalEdge
      3•2 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      -1•2 months ago

      Let the break it, and like other things in life, make (teach) them fix it if they want to keep using it.