First of all, I’d like to apologize for contributing to the constant stream/flow of posts in which the main theme/idea/motive is to find a suitable distro for the OPoster. I wish we’d have a dedicated community that’s active/large to the extent we’d be able to delegate/contain these convos to their designated places, but alas…

With that out of the way, we can get to the actual meat. So, for two weeks, I’ve been reading a ton about different distros. And while I’m still primarily overwhelmed by the amount of choice, I think I’ve finally got somewhat of an idea.

Requirements:

  • Software-wise, the only thing I’m worried about is Davinci Resolve. It should work, but it seems to be hit or miss. The distro I wish to use should handle this gracefully.
  • I’m a huge snob for security and privacy. As I’m kinda worried that desktop Linux’ security isn’t on par with M$ or macOS, I wish to use as secure of a system as possible to (somewhat) compensate for that.

I like to follow ‘authorities’ whenever I’m overwhelmed. As I’ve known them since their PrivacyTools-days, it was easy for me to designate Privacy Guides as such. Hence, I’ve come to appreciate its recommendations. But, I believe the tailor-made consensus by this communities’ experts is at least equally important.

That’s where I’m coming from, let’s head over to the questions:

  • Are PrivacyGuides’ recommendations actually good in the first place?

  • From what I can tell, the subset of security-focused distros are (at least potentially) my end-game. But, from what I could gather, they’re not sensible picks for a newb. Is this correct?

  • As for what remains, I got the following assumptions (please correct me if I’m wrong*):

    • The anonymity-focused distros don’t seem well-suited for general use.
    • Hardening Arch or NixOS to the extent we find within the offerings of Fedora or openSUSE isn’t trivial.
    • Fedora’s Atomic Desktops offer something tangibly superior security-wise over what we find for traditional Fedora and openSUSE at the expense of convenience.

    As such, am I correct to assume that Fedora Atomic Desktops are best for me? Would you happen to know if it plays nicely with Davinci Resolve?

  • Are there any other distros worth mentioning within the context? If so, which ones and why?

  • Any gotchas or otherwise I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance for your input!

  • Atreides@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    Trial and error as long as it isn’t a professional need. At some point you just have to try and see what works for your machine and needs.

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Firstly tell what ur GPU that u wanna use it for davinci resolve ,secondly tell what ur threat model because comparing directly security of Mac os and windows doesn’t make any sense ,tell what u want exactly to achieve

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
    141·
    20 hours ago

    Distro’s are not like picking between windows or mac, Nearly all linux distributions are based on the same linux kernel and many of the base GNU packages. The main differences between distributions are philosophical.

    Some distro’s will focus on free as in speech over free as in beer meaning if something has closed source, or proprietary code they may or may not include it. You can still download and install proprietary software and drivers regardless of this initial choice.

    Some distro’s will have a preferred package manager which is like their software or app store, but if you dont like the one they picked you can install a different one.

    As for security, linux is as secure as you make it, its vastly more secure than Windows out of the box, and probably more secure than MacOS but we dont really know because both Apple and Microsoft dont publish their code so we cant review or audit its security. Setting up a secure linux install is dead simple and you can find dozens of guides for every distribution and edge case.

    Since the main tool you want to run is Davinci Resolve it makes sense to see what distribution they test against and go with that, rather than pick an arbitrary “secure” distribution. It will be simpler to harden their preferred distro than to take a hardened distro and make their software work on it.

    I suggest checking their website and going with their top suggestion.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    82·
    20 hours ago

    Debian

    I did not read the post, I just came here to say Debian since that’s the answer to the general question. 😄

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Secureblue eliminates many attack vectors. It is also recommended by PrivacyGuides. Worth trying if you can find davinci resolve as a Flatpak or Fedora RPM.

  • jinx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    20 hours ago

    immutable distros (e.g. fedora atomic desktops) are secure in the sense that they’re containerized. if that’s something you’re after, i don’t see why it wouldn’t be a good fit for you.

    they do rely on flatpaks, so you’ll need to make sure davinci resolve comes as one. it doesn’t seem to be on flathub, but i do see someone else has packaged it. if that runs well, i think you’d have nothing to worry about.