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.

  • @ace_garp
    5•6 months ago

    DebianJr is the easiest pre-packaged distro for kids 7-12.

    Under 12, I would keep it fully offline(remove NIC or blacklist MAC address.

    Install a local wikipedia instance (or simple-wikipedia) for reference, and give them thumb drives/DVDs for media.

    For the fully libre start to life, install Trisquel GNU/Linux and use the DebJr package list to install required software.