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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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If you don’t have much experience with linux you should not use nixos. I don’t think nixos is any different from debian or fedora in privacy, anonymity, or security. Many people even reduce their privacy by putting their config on github.
Nixos can be more secure than classic distros. First of all, you have atomic states of your system, so nothing can be added without rebuilding the whole system and giving it a new name
Also you can do impermanence to ensure nothing can slip in for sure, because the system will be recreated every boot
I mean yes you reduce your privacy by interacting with Microsoft GitHub in general, but posting your Nix config to the public isn’t much of a privacy concern since you shouldn’t have any plaintext secrets anyhow as a best practice since it would be compiled into the Nix store. There are a couple of different ways to encrypt secrets, as well as just not committing private *.nix to a public repository.
Other people will know what bootloader you use, what apps you use, etc. Yeah I guess its not a huge concern, but its something.
It’s like giving a map of your infrastructure to a hacker, but it depends on your thread model. Most of the attacks on home servers are automated, so it shouldn’t be a consern
Another thing if your thread model is different, then the situation is not that good, but you can encrypt a lot of stuff, especially when you’re making your config reproducible