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Operating Systems
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Normal Distributions
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Debian is a popular distribution focused on reliability and stability.
+ Is very beginner friendly and stable. But they sometimes modify packages to their own bias (like KeePassXC).
+ New packages are explicity delayed, to go through further testing by the debian team. This has it's own up/downsides.
+ It offers greater stability, but bugs and security patches are being released at a slower rate.
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+ Experience level:
Beginner Friendly
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Arch Linux is a rolling release distro maintained by the community.
+ It has many great and
unmodified packages in it's repository. It also features the
Arch User Repository
+ hosting many more packages maintained by the community. Arch also has a great
Wiki that literally explains everything.
+ One downside of being a rolling release distro, sometimes new packages end up "breaking" the system,
+ on the other hand, offering the newest patches and security vunerability fixes.
+ Experience level:
Moderate
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FOSS Distributions
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Parabola Linux is a fork of
Arch Linux, but making use
+ of the Linux-Libre kernel, stripping out non-FOSS segments of code.
+ This also applies to it's package repository, making for fewer packages but being 100% FOSS.
+ You may end up having issues with your Intel wireless cards xd.
+ Parabola is the perfect distro for FOSS advicates and experiences users.
This is not a beginner distribution!
+ It doesn't have a User-Repository like Arch does, but doen't prevent users from installing AUR packages.
+ Experience level:
Linux knowledge required
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Internet Browsers
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Librewolf is a independent fork of Mozilla's
Firefox build around privacy.
+ It features no telemetry, experiments or unnsessary distractions. It also includes uBlock origin.
+ It builds upon the latest Firefox build for up-to-date security and features.
+ Although I recommend arkenfoxes
user.js to harden it even more
+ and make it even more fingerprinting resistant with methods like operating system spoofing.
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Brave is the perfect choise for someone that needs a chromium based browser.
+ Brave blocks ads and trackers by default, uses it's own private searchengine and protects you from browser fingerprinting.
+ But it comes with crypto-integration wich many people find annoying.
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Internet Browser Extentions
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uBlock Origin is a lightweight popular and effective ad blocker, supporting a wide range of browsers.
+ It's easy to use, requiring no expertise but offering options for more experiences users.
+ uBO also allows custom rules and filters.
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uMatrix is a point-and-click matrix to filter net requests.
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This extention is definitely for advanced users!
+ It allows the user to block individual sections to domains the website connects to.
+ This is done to filter out unwanted domains to prevent tracking and fingerprinting.
+ But to do so effectively,
manual tweaking for every website is required.
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Other Nice Progams
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KeepassXC is a safe way to store and manage your passwords and login-credentials
+ It's ad, tracker and cloud free and runs locally on your system saving your passwords
+ in a encrypted database stored on
your computer.
+ It also comes with a lot of useful features, such as a random password generator, login-credential autofill and much more.
+ It's user interface is beginner friendly but also offers options for advanced users.
+ The databases can be secured by a password and you have the
option to add 2FA to it, in form of a secret file
+ or a hardware challange-response key (like a yubikey).
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VSCodium is the telemetry/tracking free version of Microsoft's popular VSCode.
+ Yes! Microsoft even builds telemetry and trackers into it's code editors.
+ VSCodium is community driven and licensed under a free licence.
+ One problem with VSCodium is that most extentions that would be avaiable in VSCode are not in VSCodium,
+ but one can enable them with a few workarounds.
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Thunderbird is a E-Mail client developed my Mozilla.
+ Featuring much more that just E-Mail, it also handels contatcs, calendars, RSS feeds and even has a chat section.
+ Thunderbird supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail),
+ has an integrated learning Spam filter, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders.
+ One can also extend it by installing extentions.
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