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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Oh I looked into it recently and discovered endless os, it has from scratch parental controls, an offline encyclopedia/Wikipedia lite an other educative softwares and games. You can use it totally offline as it seems to be made for educative purpose. Check it it could be interesting for your purpose. (You can also download and install more stuff for it of course)

https://www.endlessos.org/

It's freeware of course. Their installer took ages to download, there are torrents of their full version (12Gb)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I second endless os. Parental controls, locked down system, comes prepackaged with many educational apps.

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

Can't you install the Basic image and then add desired packages that are included in the Full image afterwards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think the added packages are just preinstalled software from their curated store (only family friendly and educative software) but that is just asupposition.