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.

  • youmaynotknow
    5•6 months ago

    My daughter had to take her laptop to school last week for her MAP tests (Nobara), and all the other kids with Macs, Chromebook or Windows were fascinated with her computer.

    She came home pissed that they all wanted to try her computer and wouldn’t leave her alone 🤣🤣

    • /home/pineapplelover
      2•6 months ago

      I’m trying to pick a linux distro for a noob and they said they wanted a kde de like my arch + kde setup. I recommended them trying out kubuntu. I’m taking a look at nobara and idk, I just feel like there is more help for debian base distros out there.

      • youmaynotknow
        1•6 months ago

        Nobara is basically Fedora with all gaming tweaks already made for the user.

        I know I don’t have to tell you how Arch is not noob friendly.

        Having said that, there are plenty of Debian based distros with KDE out of the box. KDE Neon is Ubuntu based, for example.

          • youmaynotknow
            2•6 months ago

            Fedora, in my opinion, is super stable. But that’s just me. My daughter has had 0 complains so far, I running it on an old HP Spectrum X360 with and Nvidia card). I’d be hard pressed to go back to anything Debian based (until the new CosmicDE is out, then I’m taking whatever new PopOS they choose to put it on for a spin).