PhotographOtter
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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 people on facebook, do zoom calls with his therapist and other things like that.
The problem is that whenever he's left on his own, he ends up going into the settings and changing everything around at random. Changing passwords that he'll forget within seconds, changing colors, UI settings and all sorts of other things that eventually render the computer unusable. When left on his own, he just sits there and breaks the computer. He doesn't know any better. I've talked to him about it but for anyone who's delt with someone with a TBI, you know that you can only go so far.
I recently switched him over to linux because on Windows he'd install every single thing he'd see that would pop up on his browser. I used adblock, I blocked all sorts of things that could cause harm, but he'd always find a way of installing a giant pile of malware on the computer, rendering it completely unusable after a few days. Currently it takes forty five minutes for it to boot up into Windows, and that's after only a few days of him using it.
But on linux he has a different problem. He's able to change passwords, change UI settings, change boot up options when he sees the GRUB pop up. He just sits there and breaks the thing. I've taken away administrative privileges but that only goes so far. I've looked up linux distros for kids, but those seem geared toward teaching kids about it. I need a linux distro for grandma. Something that doesn't allow the user to change anything on the computer once it's initially set up.
Does anyone have any advice? Is there a linux distro out there that's built to just work? No settings, no options. Just a browser and a few applications that I'd install in advance. I'd want him to not be able to change ANY settings on the computer.
The problem is that whenever he's left on his own, he ends up going into the settings and changing everything around at random. Changing passwords that he'll forget within seconds, changing colors, UI settings and all sorts of other things that eventually render the computer unusable. When left on his own, he just sits there and breaks the computer. He doesn't know any better. I've talked to him about it but for anyone who's delt with someone with a TBI, you know that you can only go so far.
I recently switched him over to linux because on Windows he'd install every single thing he'd see that would pop up on his browser. I used adblock, I blocked all sorts of things that could cause harm, but he'd always find a way of installing a giant pile of malware on the computer, rendering it completely unusable after a few days. Currently it takes forty five minutes for it to boot up into Windows, and that's after only a few days of him using it.
But on linux he has a different problem. He's able to change passwords, change UI settings, change boot up options when he sees the GRUB pop up. He just sits there and breaks the thing. I've taken away administrative privileges but that only goes so far. I've looked up linux distros for kids, but those seem geared toward teaching kids about it. I need a linux distro for grandma. Something that doesn't allow the user to change anything on the computer once it's initially set up.
Does anyone have any advice? Is there a linux distro out there that's built to just work? No settings, no options. Just a browser and a few applications that I'd install in advance. I'd want him to not be able to change ANY settings on the computer.