I first used Linux about 5 years ago (Ubuntu). Since then, I have tried quite a few distros:
Kali Linux (Use as a secondary)
Linux Mint (Used for a while)
Arch Linux (Could not install)
Tails (Use this often)
Qubes OS (Tried it twice, not ready yet)
Fedora (Current main)
For me, it has been incredibly difficult to find a properly privacy oriented Linux distro that also has ease of use. I really enjoy the GNOME desktop environment, and I am most familiar with Debian. My issue with Fedora is the lack of proper sandboxing, and it seems as though Qubes is the only one that really takes care in sandboxing apps.
Apologies if this is the wrong community for this question, I would be happy to move this post somewhere else. I've been anonymously viewing this community after the Rexodus, but this is my first time actually creating a post. Thank you!
If you would experimentate can try Alpine linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
At least that says about itself.
However, I have never installed it
I believe I may have live booted it once (when I needed to perform an action that live booting with Ubuntu couldn't do), and I really enjoyed the look and feel of it for the short time I used it.
Or it was a different one, but let's just assume it was Alpine ;)
What proper sandboying in fedora are you missing? Fedora is very advanced in that regard compared to most other distros.
Traditional Fedora and especially atomic distros are very good for this, see other comments as well recommending ublue.
I had installed an app (flatpak) that required the use of my microphone. I knew I had disabled microphone permissions globally in settings, so I went into settings and turned microphone access on. The app successfully used my microphone, but the issue is it doesn't show up as an app that requested microphone permissions in settings. Further reading showed that sandboxed apps are forced to request microphone access, but unsandboxed apps can freely use the microphone. This led me to believe that the flatpaks I had been installing were not sandboxed. I could be wrong, so some insight would be much appreciated!
Yay for the first post!
I cannot comment on the topic but I'm wondering if you would get more insights from the folks in the !linux@lemmy.ml community. Maybe wanna crosspost?
If the distro supports apparmor, then firejail + apparmor offer together sandboxing for quite a set of applications (apparmor includes few profiles by itself, but firejal has quite a few, and one can enable apparmor on all, or the ones wnated). Arch has pretty good wikies about firejail + apparmor.
