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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Kiosk Mode and Linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been 100% on Linux for several years now and I don't miss Windows at all in any aspect.

But in my opinion, there is one thing that Windows does significantly better than Linux, kiosk mode.

I wish Linux had something similar. All the solutions I've been able to find are far more complex and technical to implement and use.

If anybody has suggestions for something that's easy to use on Linux that works similar to Windows kiosk mode, I'd love to try it.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not an expert by any means (actually just learning ostree now), but would it maybe make sense to use an immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue? That way people pretty much can't change anything in root (well unless they're hackerman or whatever)?