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.

  • MajorHavoc
    7·
    8 months ago

    Basically any mainstream Linux distro is easy enough for a child, today.

    For kids who can read tell them to press that ‘Windows’ key, and start typing what they’re looking for.

    For younger kids, place appropriate icons on their desktop.

    I do my parental controls at the network level (PiHole, etc), so I haven’t looked much into parental controls on the Linux host, itself.

    I have started to favor PopOS, because it is familiar, because it looks a lot like SteamOs, what their SteamDeck runs, when they reboot into desktop mode, in order to mod their Minecraft.

    • phrogpilot73@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Ummm, their SteamDeck runs Pop? Have you modded it? Because last I checked it ran SteamOS (an immutable Arch variant) and used KDE in desktop mode, whereas Pop uses Gnome…