hi I'm still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security

  • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If you don't have much experience with linux you should not use nixos. I don't think nixos is any different from debian or fedora in privacy, anonymity, or security. Many people even reduce their privacy by putting their config on github.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I mean yes you reduce your privacy by interacting with Microsoft GitHub in general, but posting your Nix config to the public isn’t much of a privacy concern since you shouldn’t have any plaintext secrets anyhow as a best practice since it would be compiled into the Nix store. There are a couple of different ways to encrypt secrets, as well as just not committing private *.nix to a public repository.

      • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Other people will know what bootloader you use, what apps you use, etc. Yeah I guess its not a huge concern, but its something.