So, anons. I finally decided to leave the stage of windows and chrome user. What linux distro is the best for keeping my data privet? And should i use tor and duckduckgo or there is some more noob friendly anti-spy soft?
So, anons. I finally decided to leave the stage of windows and chrome user.
futile
Qubes is the most secure but it's not a regular desktop OS and you should read up on it a bit before diving in. Tails is not meant to be installed but run as a liveCD. Alpine is mostly used for building containers. Whonix I can't comment on cause I've never used it. The rest are meme distros for 12 year old who want to pretend to be hackers.
Duckduckgo has been caught spying on users before so if you want a "secure" search engine you best bet is probably a self-hosted SearX instance. You could use Tor for everything but it'll be slow. You might also wanna look into DoH for DNS.
>What linux distro is the best for keeping my data privet?
freeBSD
Don't use a pentesting distro as a daily driver, if nothing else they're just full of bloat you'll never use. You're best off using a normal distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc - highest chance of it just working and you having a usable PC post-install.
If you want real privacy you're gonna have to pick something very not noob friendly like a libreboot T420 with deblobbed Gentoo.
>switching to GNU/Linux because it's "the privacy OS"
Frick off, we're full.
>Privacy
>Linux
You're heading in the wrong direction
>I'll give every website I visit full rwx permissions to my entire filesystem!
>Take that MicroShaft!
this should be a permission on your browser you choose to grant
why would you do this? you're an imbecile
No that's just how Linux works.
They also have free access to all peripherals like your camera and can even take screenshots!
>Have a nice day!
no, it isn't
get back on your macbook that tells apple whatever program you are running please
Not only is this wrong, but it's been proven that Windows' telemetry sends screenshots of your desktop to MS.
You guys have really never heard of x11?
>*closes porn tab*
>>I'll give every website I visit full rwx permissions to my entire filesystem!
least schizo wintoddler
One rupee has been deposited in your Microsoft account for your diligent FUD work.
1. qubes
don't bother if you want to play games or don't have 32GB+ ram because of how virtualisation is consumptive of ram
2. tails
not really worth it unless you're not actually living on your machine
3. kali, black, parrot
not for a daily machine, they're not meant for privacy
4. whonix
i guess, i dont know anything about it
5. alpine
alpine seems good to me because of how much it's locked down by default, but you don't want to try alpine as a new person, you won't understand it at all
6. kodachi
useless
just install a regular distribution and use linux methods of security. an immutable distribution and only flatpaks for example managing their permissions via flatseal might be a good idea, it depends, flatpaks are pretty shitty though because their devs often give them as many permissions as possible in an unoptimised fashion
don't use tor for everything, you'll make yourself miserable and it's not worth it. besides, for the clearnet (i.e. not .onion links) exit nodes are presumed to be mostly controlled by intelligence agencies. just use it to pirate and go on the dark web
aside from qubes all of those are either not meant for daily use or straightup pajeet garbage
just go with something popular like fedora, mint, ubuntu
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Does any linux distro have a firewall properly set by default?
i was going to give qubes a run but the installation media doesnt even work correctly. if i have to troubleshoot the fricking installer theres no way that is a daily use OS
You mean sane security defaults? Uhm... Mx linux?, Void? (this last one is not for newcomers though).
Mx linux is pretty nice and stable for new comers though, you can set up things at the gui which are mostly relegated to the command line in other more popular distros which have recommended already, I think they have a kde version now, perfect for those migrating from windows all in all a good distro. Other that comes to mind is Opensuse when it comes to the gui.
One warning though, Ubuntu is not what is used to be, I recommend against it.
>Ubuntu is not what is used to be
>that one mandatory ubuntu-pro package