In short, my question is “Is there a way to prevent a non-malicious but unknowledgable and clumsy user to ruin their own home directory?”
Say my grandma opens a file browser looking for a picture, finds those dot files or those mysteriously-named directories distracting, sets her mind to deleting them. And assume she somehow finds a way to do so. While I understand that dot files or mysteriously-named directories of a non-privileged user are of no ultimate importance, it is a maintenance nightmare.
Plus, it’s not only mysterious files that are prone to be targetted. She might well delete by accident the picture she was looking for.
Two kinds of solutions that come to mind are: -Restrict file permissions in an adequate way -Implement an easily operable, fool-proof, back-in-time scheme
Is there a mainstream, well-supported distro of GNU/Linux that has figured this use-case out?
I figure it might come in handy when Window 10 is no longer supported and the reports of hacks keep coming in.
my grandparents have a very slow laptop with w10 and it keeps telling them it can’t upgrade to 11, and I’m sick of explaining to them that their pc will not stop working…
i would install mint for them since I use it too, but I’m afraid they will find a way to delete items in the panel…or the whole panel. and there ain’t no way to lock it. I have been considering zorin but wasn’t sure of how stable it is. has ever destroyed itself with updates or anything like that?
The comment reads a lot like zorin has worked fine with updates for 10 years.
Yep, it’s just been auto updating. She needed help from her kids once or twice when her documents left the “recently opened” list though. She does not know what a filesystem is