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Linux for Kids? (yall.theatl.social)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Standard Ubuntu should have you covered.

One word of warning though, don't be too egregious with the parental controls. If your kids are motivated enough, they will find a way around it.

Education really is your best weapon here. Tell them about the dangers of the modern web and computing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If your kids are motivated enough, they will find a way around it.

Reminds me of my local public library in 1997. They had these public computers for people that didn't yet have Internet access, and the browsers were locked down and stripped with just "back", "forward", "refresh" buttons and a URL address bar.

However, there was a tiny question mark icon in the corner that when clicked, brought up the Windows help system (that browser thing that can navigate help topics). There was a link in there to open IE and go to a support page, and when clicked would launch the full Internet Explorer with a complete menu over top of the kiosk interface, and this browser instance was not restricted in what it could access like the kiosk browser was (I believe it may have been a custom version of Mosaic).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yep! Such container breakouts exist even today in Citrix !

Shit like this was what got me into cybersecurity