Comment by reify

I did this two years ago for a 10 year old.

I went with Linux Mint XCFE

The issue for all parents is surely online safety, especially so for our youngest.

I managed to prevent the 10 year old acccessing porn and other non child friendly sites.

change the browser to the Mullvad Browser or and librewolf

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make sure you change the DNS in network manager and the the browser.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I used these:

  family blocks: Ads, Trackers, Malware, Adult, Gambling
  all blocks: Ads, Trackers, Malware, Adult, Gambling, Social media

  family.dns.mulvad.net
  all.dns.mullvad.net

you really dont want an 8 year old on, facebook, X, reddit or any of the other trash sites

----------------------- search engines:

Qwant provides a safe Junior search.

https://www.qwantjunior.com/

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It takes time to set up.

once it is set up, become a kid and search for porn, gambling etc, to see if you as an adult can find those sites. if you do, block them

to block sites just add lines like these to ublock/my filters section.

If a child does click on them they are blocked and do not open. This also works if the child opens a link from a search engine. This way also removes the proceed button that allows you to bypass the restriction.

  facebook.com##^html
  youtube.com##^html
  threads.com##^html
  instagram.com##^html
  tiktok.com##^html
  pinterest.com##^html
  twitter.com##^html
  google.com##^html
  bing.com##^html
  reddit.com##^html
  pornhub.com##^html

etc etc

for fun; set up a few aliases, so they can update from the terminal.

This is great for kids, typing update into the terminal and watching it update && upgrade