cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12400033 (Thank you https://lemmy.ml/u/Kory !)

I first used Linux about 5 years ago (Ubuntu). Since then, I have tried quite a few distros:

Kali Linux (Use as a secondary)

Linux Mint (Used for a while)

Arch Linux (Could not install)

Tails (Use this often)

Qubes OS (Tried it twice, not ready yet)

Fedora (Current main)

For me, it has been incredibly difficult to find a properly privacy oriented Linux distro that also has ease of use. I really enjoy the GNOME desktop environment, and I am most familiar with Debian. My issue with Fedora is the lack of proper sandboxing, and it seems as though Qubes is the only one that really takes care in sandboxing apps.

Apologies if this is the wrong community for this question, I would be happy to move this post somewhere else. I’ve been anonymously viewing this community after the Rexodus, but this is my first time actually creating a post. Thank you!

UPDATE:

Thank you all so much for your feedback! The top recommended distro by far was SecureBlue, an atomic distro, so I will be trying that one. If that doesn’t work, I may try other atomic distros such as Fedora Atomic or Fedora Silverblue (I may have made an error in my understanding of those two, please correct my if I did!). EndeavourOS was also highly recommended, so if I’m not a fan of atomic distros I will be using that. To @[email protected], your suggestion for Linux Mint Debian Edition with GNOME sounds like a dream, so I may use it as a secondary for my laptop. Thank you all again for your help and support, and I hope this helps someone else too!

  • Charger8232@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    4 months ago

    Preface: this is written with less care than I do usually. I was writing one of my usual replies, but my phone chose to restart while the text was being written in its browser.

    No worries, we’ve all been there! Was the restart due to annoying OS features (e.g. Windows used to restart immediately without asking, iOS restarts if your phone is locked and it’s night time, etc.)

    Was that rhetorical 😅?

    No, I’m just blind :,) I found it now

    Edit: Here it is!

    Would you mind sharing blogs/sites etc that you find exceptionally useful for finding out about these things?

    Until the Rexodus (by the way, I’m apparently the only one to call it that. Please, people, it’s such a good name!), I had simply kept current with every post on r/privacy. I had occasionally read a few old posts, but it was mostly just keeping an eye on what the community was posting about and reading the discussions to learn as much as possible. I have a few old screenshots, like from this post and this one, but besides that it was just miscellaneous posts.

    Edit: I found others calling it the Rexodus! Here is one

    • Throwaway1234@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 months ago

      Was the restart due to annoying OS features (e.g. Windows used to restart immediately without asking, iOS restarts if your phone is locked and it’s night time, etc.)

      Actually, I am not sure why it happened 😅. It was connected to the charger and I didn’t do anything that would otherwise be a direct cause to the phone to shutting off. To be honest, I don’t recall it ever happen before 😅. Kinda spooky… Or just technology being derpy at times 🤣.

      No, I’m just blind :,) I found it now

      Hahaha, glad to hear that you found it!

      Edit: Here it is!

      Thank you!

      Until the Rexodus (by the way, I’m apparently the only one to call it that. Please, people, it’s such a good name!),

      I’d argue that Rexxit is just plain better 😜.

      I had simply kept current with every post on r/privacy. I had occasionally read a few old posts, but it was mostly just keeping an eye on what the community was posting about and reading the discussions to learn as much as possible. I have a few old screenshots, like from this post and this one, but besides that it was just miscellaneous posts.

      Thank you for the answer! I started out following r/privacy diligently until I noticed that my threat model didn’t quite align with some of the more common echo chambers found there. To be more elaborate; it seems as if I was more absolutist when security was concerned, while the community was more absolutist when privacy was concerned. To be fair, it’s r/privacy, so it makes sense for it to be that way. Though I had hoped that security wasn’t treated like a second-class citizen; at least that’s how I felt*. Regardless, it seems that I’ve missed some gems along the way. Hopefully I will be able to catch up.

      • Charger8232@lemmy.mlOP
        2·
        4 months ago

        the community was more absolutist when privacy was concerned.

        Yeah, after the Rexxit (heh) started the whole r/privacy community lost a massive amount of quality in the community. Even before then, they pushed to tell people the clear disconnect between privacy and security (which, while there is, a threat model is a threat model, privacy or not). [email protected] has a much nicer community and is very open to the idea of services that are designed for security and not privacy. In my eyes, c/privacy is the more “mature” version of r/privacy. I used to occasionally check up on r/privacy after the Rexxit, and always left feeling very mad about a lot of the posts and responses.

        • Throwaway1234@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          4 months ago

          Thank you for the great reply! I think I will be paying more attention to c/privacy going forward. Btw, how is secureblue going?

          • Charger8232@lemmy.mlOP
            2·
            4 months ago

            Btw, how is secureblue going?

            Thanks for asking! I haven’t switched yet, because I want to run it on a separate SSD that hasn’t arrived in the mail yet. The SSD will not only be an upgrade from my current one, but it will make my Linux journey a lot less painful down the road.