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[SOLVED] Looking for restrictive Linux desktop firewall
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You are looking for an outbound firewall
Like the others recommended
OpenSnitch has multiple detection ways, eBPF might require activation in the kernel, there are others too, 4 in total
For me on NixOS it worked in eBPF and proc mode. NixOS' weird binary placement makes rules less secure I guess as it can only check commands (if it were nix-native it could use a function for that)
And I had tons of "unknown process"es which I needed to allow to not break things, which kinda makes the thing useless