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It’s in privsec.dev’s recommendations, so it’s safe to assume it’s at least a decent choice for privacy. I’d argue it’s best for ‘normies’ together with Fedora.
One of its unique qualities would be the excellent support for Btrfs+Snapper out of the box and the fact that it’s the only distro I’m aware of that has configs for both AppArmor and SELinux. Furthermore, its stable rolling release model is perhaps its killer-feature.
Its primary con is probably how it’s not Arch(-based) and thus doesn’t have access to the vast supplies of packages found in the AUR. Thankfully, this is easily solvable through Distrobox.
First, I am writing this on 4 hr of sleep. Apologies if I get stuff wrong. I would say there are 3 main levels of privacy for OS.
Normal OSs - Stuff like windows and macos. I might put Ubuntu here too, that one is somewhere between 3 and 2.
Decent stuff - Most Linux is here. OpenSUSE and other mostly free distros fit here. Best mix of privacy and daily drivability for general use.
Extreme privacy - I don’t know much about this one but it is for stuff like Tails. It offers the best privacy but unless you are a darkweb drug lord / whistleblower / journalist it is probably not for you.
My point is for the most part, anything in 2 should be fine, and that is most conventional Linux distros. A quick list of stuff I would put in 2 in no particular order:
There are tons more but you can probably get the gist from that.
Why don’t you go get some sleep? Take care if yourself.
I tried that. I woke up at 1:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep for no reason. Same thing happened yesterday too.
Try leaving your phone outside of the sleeping area and set time limits on when you look at you phone.
You’ll fall asleep eventually if there is nothing to do but sleep. You also could try reading
There’re multiple things OpenSUSE does differently, when compared to most other distros:
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It’s my preferred distro these days but I don’t see it as being particularly stronger than any other distro for privacy. It depends how you use it. (That said, I’d trust it over Ubuntu just because of Canonical’s corporate culture.)
If I were looking for a seriously private OS I’d probably turn to Tails, Whonix or Qubes (which includes Whonix).
Disable the non-free repos and you should be good.
I dont think there is much difference in what OS you choose when it comes to this question, more about how you configure your OS and how you install applications. That being said, I also daily drive OpenSuse Tumbleweed and it’s so far my favourite OS, Yast, Zypper and Opi are amazing to have in ones toolkit 😇
What? Windows code is about 50% telemetry at this point. There’s no configuration that will prevent it from talking to the MS mothership. Same with macOS. There’s no configuration that will keep it from talking to Apple in some capacity.
Most Linux distros don’t typically do this.
And you’re going to sit there and tell us the OS doesn’t matter? Was this written by Nedella ffs.
Yeah I did not meant Windows hahah, thats a totally different ball game :P Only meant different distros
Yeah huge difference between OS and distro lol
Yeah mb, windows isn’t really apart of my life anymore, luckily, so low key forgot about it when writing 🙃
Sorry for off topic but whenever I see “I was thinking about trying [Linux distro]” all I can do is think of the YouTube classic Male Restroom Etiquette.
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Good bot
Jumped to it after ubuntu. Love it.
Snapper has saved me multiple times.
Its otherwise very stable.
Up to date applications is great.
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Is “vood” a typo for “good” or a term I don’t know?
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