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Secure distro for daily use (monero.town)

submitted 1 year ago by chevy9294@monero.town to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi, Im searching for a secure distro for normal daily use for my laptop. Currently Im running arch linux with full disk encryption, secure boot, linux hardened, firewalld and most apps as flatpaks (with some disabled permissions using flatseal). I think its pretty secure laptop but it could be more secure.

Tails and Whonix are the most secure but they are not ment for normal daily use...

There is a lot of new immutable distros. Getting (system) malware is harder to get on them. Im most interested in blendOS, because its based. Does anyone know if it has full disk encryption, secure boot, etc. or can it be done by the user? What about other distros like Fedora Silverblue?

Any other recommendations?

Thank you :)

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[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to me like you already have a secure setup. You just need to keep it secure. I personally can't imagine downgrading from using Arch to an inflexible immutable distro.

[–] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

an inflexible immutable distro

Besides the somewhat unfortunate and false 'immutable' name, what makes them inflexible according to you?

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't install a new system package for most immutable distros without going through some magic incantation, then doing a reboot as an example.

Everything immutable is designed to be inflexible for the user. Am not saying that it's a bad thing if that's what you clearly want.