

They have so far.
I’m the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.
Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I’m nearly done with an IT Security degree.
TL;DR I am a nerd.


They have so far.


Privacy, freedom to choose whatever I want, focus on FOSS (I hate/dont trust proprietary software), and security features for hardening Linux (Landlock, SELinux, Bubblewrap, sysctl, hardened_malloc).


Thanks for the info! Didn’t realize it was dash.


Rust (Golang or any mem-safe lang) is/are useful for designing secure applications, but not the reason Syd is so great. It is impressive because it is unprivileged, simple yet very granular, has tons of exploit mitigations and hardening options, defaults to hardened_malloc (on arm64 and x64), it’s multilayered sandbox (using landlock, seccomp, namespaces, and more), but of course being written in a memory safe language is an important plus (as memory corruption vulnerabilities are a very large class of common vuln). It abstracts the complexity of working with low-level sandboxing API (such as landlock) while allowing you still construct complicated sandboxes). The dev is also very open to add new ideas.
LMDE is mostly just the apps and visual config. It is verg close to regular Debian. I know for a fact it is basically just regular Debian because I have distromorphed it into Kicksecure several times, which only works on Debian.


I thought about it (and I might still) but the project is still in beta and implementing sysctl and MAC would slow everything down development-wise. Switching to Fish would be easy and cool though.


I am excited to see Chimera Linux mature because iy seems like a distro which prioritizes a simple but modern software stack.
Features of Chimera that I like include:
What I would like:


What I want out of a secure Linux (or BSD) system is full (top-to-bottom) sandboxing of all components to enforce least privilege. I am want to learn how to make my own distro (most likely for personal use) which uses strong SELinux policies, in conjunction with syd-3 sandboxing, which seems like the most robust and feature rich, unprivileged sandbox in both the Linux/BSD worlds (also it’s totally in safe Rust from what i can tell).
Another thing that I would love to make is a drop-in replacement for Flatpak that is backwards compatible but uses syd-3 instead. It has much better exploit protections than Bubblewrap, and is actually an OOTB secure sandbox. I dont know much about the internals of Flatpak, or how to use xdg-desktop-portal, but I am going to start more simple with a Bubblejail alternative. One major advantage of syd is that you can modify an already running sandbox, so theoretical you could show a popup that says something like “App1 is requesting microphone access.”, where you could toggle on without needing to restart the app.
Need to get better at coding tho lol


Kagi requires an account, therefore associating all your searches to your account. With DuckDuckGo HTML, you can restrict it so it can’t access JavaScript (which it doesn’t do anyways), therefore reducing the risk of fingerprinting or other tracking.


Combine this with Librera Reader and you can listen to eBooks easily.


Yeah, I already understood that. I just thought the comment above was saying it already had ARM emulation, but it was bad or something. I just misunderstood what the above comment was saying.


IIRC, it is a current limitation of rpm-ostree, which results in an ISO that is nearly double in size.


Pretty sure Waydroid uses the x86 image of LineageOS, cus last time I used it (like a year or more ago) I had to get x86 version of APKs I wanted to install.


If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.


I moved an older relative to Mint and I regret it. Weird lagging and display server crashes sometimes, probably because of X11. Plus it’s release cycle is very slow, so old packages. Ubuntu is far from my favorite distro, but at least it uses a DE with first class Wayland support.


Here are my recommendations from last time I saw this question asked: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/17912220


Yeah np. Good luck.


You can use both through the browser, which is the safest way of doing things because the browser sandboxes the web apps, isolating them from your system. If you prefer an app for Messenger, look on Flathub, though I advise against it. The two apps I found for Messenger are Franz and Ferdium (a fork of Franz with more features).
To mitigate the privacy risks:
Nothing much you can do sadly.
You can change that setting in your App Store (eg. Discover for Plasma)