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That definitely sounds like a good way to go. He breaks it every day, so it would probably be the first thing I'd do every day when I get to the house. I'm wondering if there's a way to make it restore itself every time it restarts. It sounds like this application isn't made for something like...

Oh interesting, I'll have to look into timeshift... Off hand, do you know if there's a way to make it boot up from a snapshot? Or would I have to manually load up a snapshot each time? If I could make it load from a snapshot at every bootup that would be pretty great. Maybe have a secondary...

Hehe, thanks. I've been using linux since Ubuntu 8.04 and I was a programming major in College, but these days I use it mostly as a normal user without getting into the guts of it all. Usually I have no problem solving my issues on my own, but this particular problem is something that's out of...

He doesn't know enough about linux to type things into the terminal like that. He only uses GUI stuff I have a root password set up but he doesn't know what it is. But there are a lot of settings you can change without the root password. Theme settings, his own user password, he can disable UI...

Thanks a bunch, I appreciate the help

He's on Mint Cinnamon I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so any changes that are made on the system are temporary. Like, every time you reboot the computer it reverts back to the old settings, kind of like a live disk, but the only difference being that the files that he downloads stay in...

Exactly. I know that he can only tweak "his settings" and that's the problem. He still has enough access to those settings to destroy everything on the computer and render it unusable

It isn't about monopolies or freedoms or anything like that. I need a computer my brother can't break by changing a billion settings around. He's not the normal type of user and needs something very different from what most people would need

He's already set up with a non-administrative account. But he can still change his own user password, he can change the UI settings, he can disable parts of the system. He breaks anything he can touch. I'm looking for a way to make it so he doesn't have access to anything. What he sees is what...

I've never used Chromium OS before but would that be a good solution for this?

So I have a bit of an odd situation and I'm wondering if anyone might have some insight on this. I'm not new to Linux, but I'm new to the situation that I'm facing. Without going into too much detail, my brother has a traumatic brain injury and I'm his caretaker. He uses his laptop to talk to...