Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 24/05/2025 09:45, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-05-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 24 May 2025 04:45:34 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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Canonical basically treat their users the way Microsoft does, perhaps
even worse. ...
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The whole point of Free Software, is you, the user, get to choose what
to do, how to do it.

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Including the ability not to choose to use Canonical.
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Remember, Free Software has no vendor lock-in. If any Free Software
company really were abusing their users the way Microsoft does, they
wouldn’t last ten minutes in the marketplace.

 Indeed, and that one thing I am thankful for.  The reason I advised
against Ubuntu, was because those who asked me about Linux, specifically
desired to gain freedom and choice over their computing environment and
did not want to be in a situation where an external power (such as the
vendor) could shape their computer.  Ubuntu doesn't have the optimal
philosophy in that regard.
 If people *want* that though, then thats their choice.  I just want to
have amenable options open to me.
 However, many people who may move to Linux from Windows may not care
about this, nor even know they have this option.  It might just be "this
works on my computer where Windows 11 doesn't run".

In terms of users not fucking with the system you can probably revoke SUDO privileges from them.
One of the things that most linux desktops do better than Windows is to allow removal of unwanted and inappropriate dross and creating a 'walled garden' that is moderately child proof.
If user config files are actually given root only write permissions the whole shebang becomes very 'kiosk' like,
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