Well, parents can already do that. I think the basic solution is still a VPN. Can’t read encripted traffic. Tor would be tempting to say, but a lot of nodes are owned by the government still would be better than nothing. Other than that, use strong passwords, set the browsers to delete cookies on close, use a password manager.

I’ve had a mostly good experience with pop. It’s definitely a different workflow than I was used to, but it works for me. Looking at switching to nobra though.

I would not recommend pop!_os for beginners if they have nvidea drivers. A few of the recent updates have had problems

Id recommend mint cinnamon. If you have any problems installing it, try Zorin

They baked AI into the operating system and had that recall thing where they basically took screenshots of your screen every few seconds. Linux doesn’t do that.