Hello everyone,
I'm looking to increase the security of my computers a bit through firewalld (with the KDE settings). I have a desktop and a laptop, both running Fedora 40 with KDE plasma. I don't have access to the router's firewalls etc etc this is only for my machines.
The issue is I'm having a hard time navigating the zones and setting rules the way I want. I don't wanna deal with switching to UFW and while I generally like CLI stuff I'd prefer to generally stick with the GUI here even though I find it a bit confusing (I will use CLI if necessary tho).
Anyways, let's get to the point. Firstly the only difference between the laptop and desktop, in terms of use-case, is that on my desktop I'm always connected to my home's subnet via LAN while on my laptop I often connect to public wifis, so naturally the laptop is a little less secure.
For my use-case I care about 3 network interfaces:
I do some light pentesting to learn so there's also that.
I currently have every relevant connection set to FedoraWorkstation zone by default except I manually tell the laptop to switch to public zone for public wifis (I'd change the default to be public and specify other zones for non-public connections but rn I'm in a period of time when I'm only connecting it to my home network so I wanna figure out this out first).
My question is, which zones should I use and what rules should I implement to make this more secure?
Thanks in advance
https://youtu.be/wLCSiKqcN7Y
Distro: Fedora (also tested on NixOS, should work for every distro)DE: KDE Plasma 6, wayland sessionGPU: AMD Radeon RX 570Game is on Remastered graphic setti...
Disclaimer: I know there's a lot of questions and posts like this but generally they're aimed at noobs. I consider myself an intermediate user, and I know generally distros don't matter much and you can have anything another distro has on any distro but I'm looking for something a little "specific" that better suits my need from the get-go, I guess we could say that yeah. Plus hey some discussion won't hurt Lemmy.
I come here to seek your advice oh Great Council of Linux. Please hear my cause:
Right now I use NixOS and I'm mostly happy with it, I like having everything declared on a config file I can audit to remove stuff I don't use anymore, I like the stability it provides and the rollback feature (I only sued it once but glad to have it), automatic updates that apply when I shut down my PC (I do that often) and won't bork everything, and I like that it generally has very up to date software even on its stable branch. I also like the possibility of using nix-shell to test a program and remove it immediately afterwards even if it leads to a messy .config folder sometimes.
However, there are some pain points especially when it comes to customization. Now, the system itself is very usable and have little complains there, it's very rare that a package I want isn't in the repo, and when everything works it's great, but when it doesn't work it's very frustrating (mainly due to the lack of documentation and troubleshooting via the unofficial discord can be a pain). Namely on my laptop I have issues with the cursor sometime going from the catppuccin theme (on plasma 5, laptop is 23.11) to default on some context menus on X11 or only shows the theme in windows if using wayland (tho I can wait to see if it's fixed on 24.05). I never had this on my desktop gaming PC (which used 23.11 but now switched it to unstable to have plasma 6) but I have other problems there, for example the catppuccin SDDM corners theme doesn't apply anymore for some reason. Now I'm someone who likes to customize the looks of my desktop and I want to have consistency in my theming as much as possible so these issues are very annoying to me. On top of that to resolve the latter the official git repo of the package says to use flakes, now I know many fans of NixOS will swear flakes are cool and all but I absolutely hate them: I find them confusing, I don't like having to deal with more stuff than just my config file and home-manager and I want to have nothing to do with them I just want to use the official packages.
Now I'm sure most of these issues aren't exactly NixOS's fault and maybe in 24.05 they'll all be fixed but I'm getting very annoyed both by these problems and I found it hard to solve other problems in the past as well, and I hate that searching stuff up on ecosia, the wiki, etc doesn't work most of the time due to how different NixOS is and while the (unoffical) discord is generally useful sometimes it cannot provide the help I need, plus most of the stuff I learn troubleshooting NixOS is specific to NixOS and doesn't translate to other linux distros. So that's why on one side I'm considering that maybe it's not worth waiting till the end of the month to see if 24.05 fixes my issues (I don't plan on staying on unstable after the release of 24.05 that's certain) or if I should stick with it instead of wasting a day reconfiguring everything (granted home-manager is cool af but a lot of stuff I use don't use it so it's a one-time pain).
Generally in a distro I look for something minimal, easily customizable and where I can use the terminal a lot for installing software and stuff (I just like the progression bars and seeing all the text go weeee accross the screen it's so cool) tho I'm fine using some GUI stuff like the KDE settings for other stuff where the alternative is a very complex set of config files (I generally prefer keeping wonky GUIs to a minimum though so I'm fine with some config files).
More specifically, I require a distro to have out of the box:
What I'd like to have but isn't a must have:
As for what I don't like:
Right now I'm considering the following options:
I'm open to suggestions for other options though, there's trillions of distros.
That is all that comes to my mind right now. Thanks in advance.
Hello folks,
I wanted to know if anyone has any idea why distrowatch periodically goes down for days before returning.
I mainly use it to find out if some distros have updates to their ISOs but I find it very annoying that quite frequently it's down completely.
Hello,
I'm looking for as many cool, even if pointless, programs as I can, be them terminal programs or gui ones. What do I mean by this? I'll use some examples:
if any of you know any other fancy program like this let me know please. I want to showcase them to non-linux people to show them what can be done here but not necessarily in other OSes (particularly Windows).
Hello everyone,
I wanted to post this in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community but it seems pretty much dead so I'm gonna post it here instead.
I wanted to write a guide on how to play Anomaly on Linux which works as of 19th November 2023.
I use Arch with KDE plasma (and I also tested it with Xfce4) and it works perfectly fine, it even seems to work on Wayland session but I haven't done extensive testing. It should work for any distro as long as it has what you need. So here it goes.
You'll need to have Steam, Protontricks, and obviously the game files downloaded from the official sources
You can put them wherever you want, I personally chose ~/Games/Anomaly/. Essentially put the ".7z" files wherever and extract them, I do this with this terminal command:
7z x Anomaly-1.5.1.7z
and then
7z x Anomaly-1.5.1-to-1.5.2-Update.7z
Make sure to overwrite anything when extracting the 1.5.2 patch
Open up steam, on the top right go to games > Add a non-Steam game > Browse and then navigate to and select the .exe file, then Add program.
On your Steam library Right click the Anomaly game and go to Properties > Compatibility and click Force the use of a specific compatibility layer and select whichever proton version you prefer. I went with Proton experimental and it works fine. After all of this is done, run it once and wait for it to crash.
Now open up protontricks, I'll use the GUI via running:
protontricks --gui
Then, select the Anomaly game > Default profile > Install DLL and you'll want to select these:
Let it install everything then close it and launch the game via steam. You're set to go.
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