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I don't think the DE itself matters, but I can recommend using an immutable OS (makes it harder to install malware) and installing flatpak apps only. You can also use software like flatseal to further lock down permissions
Already doing that :D kinoite-main from ublue
I dont get that scentence
No that is bluefin, their special distro.
Ublue is like rpmfusion but for image-based. Its the addition to fedora, with packages they can't ship. They replace all the
libav*with completeffmpegwhich is pretty great as its a great tool and Firefox works ootb.For example they have
-nvidiaimages for every image, which is the best way to use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers as you can roll back and a broken update simply wont ship to you.They also have modded kernel images for Razer, Surface and a special Framework image.
Another cool project basing off their "starting point" toolkit to create custom images, is secureblue, a security-optimized Version including
It is very security focused though, so no Firefox, no Flatpak as its currently broken, Podman (distrobox, toolbox) is currently not working and its unclear if that is actually necessary, ...
Bluefin is their fancy distro with lots of Tools, a custom Desktop, integrated Developer packages and more.
For firefox AND video thumbnails and preview to work you can just add
libavcodec-freeworld. But full ffmpeg is so much better.Very good choice :D
I'm starting to think people misunderstand what an "immutable" distro really does...
Please do share with me what I do not understand.
A mostly read only filesystem built from a limited number of packages, with other files being in a fixed number of locations mean it is harder for malware to hide.
You can achieve the exact same thing with a normal distro if you mount /var and /boot separately of /. And if you get a root exploit it's just as harmful on either approach.
"Immutable" systems are meant for maintainer comfort not for user security.
No, you can't : in an immutable distro I can reasonably trace almost any file in the filesystem back to the package that created it, and know with a reasonable degree of certainty that the installed version of said file has not been tampered with. That isn't possible an a normal distro.
Sure it is, has been for decades. You can use a read-only root partition, there are many tools to ensure the integrity of everything on it, and tracing files back to their package is a very old feature.