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~~i have created a short questionnaire, regarding how GNU/Linux users secure their system. if you are somewhat knowledgeful on this topic and willing to share, i would appreciate if you would fill out my questionnaire~~

okay, so, my research is finished. here are the results:

The "other" distributions include: NixOS (8x), Gentoo (4x), Slackware (1x), Void Linux (1x) or a combination of multiple distributions

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I was like "Which of the 6 systems I use on a daily basis do I answer these questions for?"

  • I have my gaming PC which runs Linux Mint and I mostly use for Minecraft and Stellaris.
  • I have my daily driver laptop, which duel boots between Linux Mint and QubesOS.
  • I have my file and dev server (it runs a bunch of virtual machines I use for various projects) which runs Debian and shares all my files over sshfs.
  • I have my backup server which rsyncs with the fileserver and runs Debian. The motherboard is like 12 years old, but it is pretty much just a house for a bunch of 8 TB drives.
  • I have the living room TV, which is an older Dell All In One that runs Linux Mint.
  • I have a weird frankenputer with a beefy GPU in it (better than the GPU in my gaming machine) that runs Debian and gets used for locally hosted AI experimentation. A friend gave me the GPU for Christmas and I had nothing to put it in, so I threw shit together from a bunch of the old PCs sitting in closets / garages around my house. Because I'm that guy.

And like... when I took the survey, I answered "yes" to having a firewall, even though I don't run one locally on any of PCs (except the laptop, when it's booted into Qubes because duh). BUT all of these are behind an OpenWRT router that DOES run a firewall, which I've spent a bunch of time messing with and customizing to get it working the way I want and put in personalized rules for the various systems. Which my wife and son LOVE ("Dad, the internet's down again!").

this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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