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Linux for Kids? (yall.theatl.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] MajorHavoc 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 6 months ago

I'm wrong. Good catch.