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.
For the most part, you won’t be able to escape Unix-like paradigms when using Unix-like systems. Notably, users have to exist in some form. You don’t necessarily need to give them passwords for the frontend signage, but they need to exist. The shortlist of setting up cage would be:
- install your favorite server distro of choice
- Have a rootless, sudoless user available to use
- install cage and your app(s) of choice
- Add autologin for the user and edit the user’s BASH profile to autolaunch cage
- Attend to any other backend setup (remote access, only allowing tty1 to exist, etc.)
- reboot
It’s not quite a few clicks, but this can in contrast also be fully automated trivially if it’s something you need to setup more than once.
