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I first used Linux about 5 years ago (Ubuntu). Since then, I have tried quite a few distros:

Kali Linux (Use as a secondary)

Linux Mint (Used for a while)

Arch Linux (Could not install)

Tails (Use this often)

Qubes OS (Tried it twice, not ready yet)

Fedora (Current main)

For me, it has been incredibly difficult to find a properly privacy oriented Linux distro that also has ease of use. I really enjoy the GNOME desktop environment, and I am most familiar with Debian. My issue with Fedora is the lack of proper sandboxing, and it seems as though Qubes is the only one that really takes care in sandboxing apps.

Apologies if this is the wrong community for this question, I would be happy to move this post somewhere else. I've been anonymously viewing this community after the Rexodus, but this is my first time actually creating a post. Thank you!

UPDATE:

Thank you all so much for your feedback! The top recommended distro by far was SecureBlue, an atomic distro, so I will be trying that one. If that doesn't work, I may try other atomic distros such as Fedora Atomic or Fedora Silverblue (I may have made an error in my understanding of those two, please correct my if I did!). EndeavourOS was also highly recommended, so if I'm not a fan of atomic distros I will be using that. To @[email protected], your suggestion for Linux Mint Debian Edition with GNOME sounds like a dream, so I may use it as a secondary for my laptop. Thank you all again for your help and support, and I hope this helps someone else too!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an alternative to Kali Linux, there's ParrotOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's been on my to-do list for a while to try. Thank you!

Edit: I think it may be applicable to mention that I have reinstalled Kali 3 times. The first time it broke after an update. The second time is when I learned what a desktop environment was. The third time was when I discovered why seperating /home, /etc, and so on into different partitions is bad if you don't know what you're doing. The installer for the third time was repeatedly broken (apps wouldn't open!), but the netinstaller resolved the issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I discovered why seperating /home, /etc, and so on into different partitions is bad if you don't know what you're doing.

You should really only be separating /home from / , there's not much benefit to separating anything else onto a separate partition.
You separate /home onto a separate partition to protect your user data in cases of the system crapping out on you, or if you're to migrate to a different distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Noted, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw, put /tmp on its own partition and mount it with noexec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Imo, tmpfs is perfectly fine as is.