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I love how you communicate things, and provide a great amount of knowledge in a digestible, organized and chill manner that everyone can be comfortable with.
The fact that you suggested Fedora, Debian, and Arch proves your positive competence on the matter of "distros". The only people who argue "which is better" are noobs that don't realize that pretty much all distros are merely forks of those 3 source distros. The only other people who throw a fit over distro's are the Gentoo crew; but that deserves a conversation in and of itself. Great video. Subscribed.
Thank you so much for this video. I use Linux for more than 10 years now but I'm always looking for ways to improve my setting. You provided just that.
This remind me of the time my room mate in college had a camera cover covering his camera so he bought a 3rd party one because he thought his was broken
Speaking of threat model, I often see people in security and privacy forums wanting to go all out with privacy and security, way beyond their threat model, often claiming that they want to keep the gov. out, but when asked if they are holding state secrets, they say no. I'm more than happy just using Linux rather than Windows, that's my threat model, telemetry and advertisements.
@genossinwaabooz4373 i have been using it for years. It has been the most stable distro I've ever had. Performed way better than Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora and several other distros I've tried.
Professional and informative video, I love your advice, you are giving us great tips on keeping our digital life safe and secure. I have followed many of your tips from many videos and feel like I have more control. Keep up the great work, and thank you!
You commented that "Flatpaks take you pretty far without very much complexity." As I understand them, Flatpaks do NOT put everything in a singel folder the way that AppImages do and I wonder what repercussions there are regarding that model. Can you compare for us Flatpak/AppImage/Snap re: security? . PS: Kudos to you on your notes! I cannot count the number of TH-camrs who simply paste in all the cr@p they use to record videos with! Come on, you guys. That sh!t belongs in your "About" page. The video notes should contain actual notes on the video! TechLore does it right.
You don't even need a fancy automatic updates app for updating Linux. Assuming you understand Linux, just setup a scheduled update system with cron to execute the apt weekly. It's really easy to do.
Webcord is a good alternative when it comes to privacy in mind. I never have used base default discord for a few years now because of it and it gives me free nitro to use.
Great video, I think you should've included browser compartmentlization tho. If someone uses a browser to run Discord, Zoom or other spyware like it, that would require lowering security settings to an unacceptable level for all other use cases
Discord and reddit are the new yahoo groups and AOL generations that grew up. The elite still stay in silence and hidden. Anyone remember irc shells? Yeh people still use irc.
My issue with Fedora is how often we're supposed to reinstall the whole OS. I would love a distro (or just an OS) that stays up-to-date with just security updates, forever, but sadly there's no such thing in this world. Not even Windows and Mac allow you to do that.
QubesOS Whonix Tails Kicksecure ParrotOS Home Edition (DON'T USE Parrot Security Edition) OpenBSD HardenedBSD Voidvault Interesting OS Projekts "SpectrumOS" and "PlagueOS"
Back when I was using Linux in the 00s automatic updates could break your system. People should no how to boot from a liveUSB and learn how to rollback their systems in case an update breaks something.
Fedora is my daily driver, but Firewalld is a complicated unintelligible mess to me. It is a firewall that a huge corporation with thousands of incoming and outgoing connections would use. How am I supposed to know which of hundreds of cryptically named processes are safe to allow in or outgoing connections?
That’s funny. I have done the more extreme and litterally update arch whenever I see updates which is usually daily and never had it break on me. Of course I use the LTS kernel so that could be why and my hardware who knows.
I managed to get to @1:45 and now I am commenting - I am sorry, but device password is not your first line of defense. LUKS or any other disk encryption should ALWAYS be your first line of defense.
I think there are some anti virus software for linux, but most dont use them because nearly everything in linux is open source and the programs you download are usually in the official repos of the linux distro. so as long as you dont run crazy exe files with wine from god knows where or snaps/flatpaks and so on you dont really need an anti virus software
11:54 Wait, does GPS give off a signal? It's a receiver. The only way it sends a signal is if you have an internet connection and some app is accessing your location.
@Daniel What if you break your system? Isn't it like in android that then your data will be unaccessible even if you have the password? Without encryption you can just copy out all your files.
You can't say: "Do your own research and pick what helps you the most" and then recommend something. People are lazy, they won't do their research and they'll just choose Fedora. Debian is only good for hosting servers, and whoever reaches Arch will give up in the second minute. I'm just saying for firs distro choose something more user friendly. Kubuntu, Kde Neon and Manjaro are perfect for the first year.
@@ransacked That is unfortunate. I am windows user too but trying alternatives can be beneficial for user in some cases. He as youtuber with this type of content should promote alternatives to privacy invasive OS like Windows.
@@anonymous76 yeah man I feel you. I use Ubuntu in my day to day with windows in a VM for gaming. I deff can recommend mint to anyone. I just don’t use it because cinnamon has these weird frame rate issues on my computer even though I have decent specs.
Bla bla bla everyone has different needs ! I like Mint, Fedora, Solus OS, POP OS and on different devices for different people I will install different distoro. There is no one the best.
@@zmieniamyinternet3172 Agree, thats why I add exception for Tails because it is more private(but it is not for everyday use) and Kali Linux because it is good for other things. But Linux Mint is the best overall Linux Distro handsdown. Ubuntu do not respect privacy, others are not as complete as Mint. Pop OS is ok but still miles behind.
I am interested. You talk too fast. You could make three videos and talk slower. I could not keep up. I quit watching. Thumbs up anyway. I am not subscribing at this time
I would suggest removing sudo entirely. - its a huge attack vector. even the most recent version of parrot-OS and Debian has an un-patched local exploit - try it yourself by typing this in a regular terminal and see if you get root access. your user does not have to even be in the sudoers file.: sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536 you can remove sudo by doing an apt-get purge sudo on debian based distros, and just use su root, or a sudo replacement.
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@tech-lore will you make a update for the complete windows guide. For the new windows 11.
Please make a video on Linux Hardening
Kt😢😮lungikny😅
"This is an advanced video, so we'll just recommend you delete google entirely. We even have a video on how to do just that."
SUBBED! So subbed.
PERFECT TIMING. Just about to install Linux for the first time on my PC. Trying out Linux Mint!
Nice! welcome to the dark side ;)
@@zeroxhunter826 very happy to be here :)
@@bluestarzero i hope you enjoy it i switched 1 month ago to manjaro
@@zeroxhunter826
The Linux will be strong in him
@@bluestarzero Cool tip: There is something called "KDE connect" do an internet search and thank me later
I wouldn't be mad if Techlore had more mini rants in the videos
Great content as always
Great content as always!
I love how you communicate things, and provide a great amount of knowledge in a digestible, organized and chill manner that everyone can be comfortable with.
I'm a simple man, I see Techlore video, I like it
The fact that you suggested Fedora, Debian, and Arch proves your positive competence on the matter of "distros". The only people who argue "which is better" are noobs that don't realize that pretty much all distros are merely forks of those 3 source distros. The only other people who throw a fit over distro's are the Gentoo crew; but that deserves a conversation in and of itself.
Great video. Subscribed.
Thank you so much for this video. I use Linux for more than 10 years now but I'm always looking for ways to improve my setting. You provided just that.
This remind me of the time my room mate in college had a camera cover covering his camera so he bought a 3rd party one because he thought his was broken
The very rare dumb but wise move.
OpenBSD hardening guide when? 😏
OpenBSD is already hardened boomer
@Chris openbsd is by default hardened..you can do even more. but you don't know how then have a look at SecBSD...
Speaking of threat model, I often see people in security and privacy forums wanting to go all out with privacy and security, way beyond their threat model, often claiming that they want to keep the gov. out, but when asked if they are holding state secrets, they say no. I'm more than happy just using Linux rather than Windows, that's my threat model, telemetry and advertisements.
I'm gonna assume some people would rather not get into the details. And there are very different kinds of targets.
As a daily driver i highly encourage Parrot OS home edition. It's focused on security and privacy and it comes with anonSurf and other valuable tools.
Looking at it as a contender!
@genossinwaabooz4373 i have been using it for years. It has been the most stable distro I've ever had. Performed way better than Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora and several other distros I've tried.
Professional and informative video, I love your advice, you are giving us great tips on keeping our digital life safe and secure. I have followed many of your tips from many videos and feel like I have more control. Keep up the great work, and thank you!
I use arch btw. It’s makes me feel better knowing what I installed
Seems very comprehensive; I do the beginner and intermediate parts as a matter of course but I just realized how exhausting it is.
Just switched to fedora, thank you!
Nice video!
F I N A L L Y 😭 thank you so much!!!
Just watched the first vid from you, you guys have earned my sub
Long live opensource !!
You commented that "Flatpaks take you pretty far without very much complexity." As I understand them, Flatpaks do NOT put everything in a singel folder the way that AppImages do and I wonder what repercussions there are regarding that model.
Can you compare for us Flatpak/AppImage/Snap re: security?
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PS: Kudos to you on your notes! I cannot count the number of TH-camrs who simply paste in all the cr@p they use to record videos with!
Come on, you guys. That sh!t belongs in your "About" page. The video notes should contain actual notes on the video! TechLore does it right.
You don't even need a fancy automatic updates app for updating Linux. Assuming you understand Linux, just setup a scheduled update system with cron to execute the apt weekly. It's really easy to do.
Webcord is a good alternative when it comes to privacy in mind. I never have used base default discord for a few years now because of it and it gives me free nitro to use.
Not for arch linux users
UPDATE EVERYDAY
Great video, I think you should've included browser compartmentlization tho. If someone uses a browser to run Discord, Zoom or other spyware like it, that would require lowering security settings to an unacceptable level for all other use cases
Discord and reddit are the new yahoo groups and AOL generations that grew up. The elite still stay in silence and hidden. Anyone remember irc shells? Yeh people still use irc.
you are doing a great job!
Family friendly content, I really enjoyed it!
Please make a video on Linux Hardening
And for a more extended lesson on privacy and security check out Mike Bazzelle's book on osint
Nice compilation!
great summary!
Debian For life smooth,reliable and stable like a rock
Please complete vidio on monero coin how we use monero
CRUSHED it! TY SUBBED
Real quality content
"Which distro should you use?"
me: [runs and hides]
Screen protector totally could’ve been in zone 1 lol
Great work 🥳 Thank you 💜
you just earned a sub
Great video!
I love Linux Mint Cinnamon.
My issue with Fedora is how often we're supposed to reinstall the whole OS. I would love a distro (or just an OS) that stays up-to-date with just security updates, forever, but sadly there's no such thing in this world. Not even Windows and Mac allow you to do that.
Pop os LTS might be one of the best options
Nice t-shirt btw
The main course
*Linux Mint*
Hi! your new fan :)
- Astro
Great Video, now next is BSD?
bump for the algs
Now, if only we'd get privacy/security scores for distros and a distro for layman that does all these jobs for us by default..
The only difference between distros is the package manager, privacy/security is the same in 99% of them
QubesOS
Whonix
Tails
Kicksecure
ParrotOS Home Edition (DON'T USE Parrot Security Edition)
OpenBSD
HardenedBSD
Voidvault
Interesting OS Projekts "SpectrumOS" and "PlagueOS"
What book would you recommend for abersult beginners to learn learn Kali lenix commands
Rob Braxman has a recent detailed episode about the problem with radios.
portmaster doesn't load on fedora 36 install i have just black window
07:18 It's because of Arch Linux.)))
Back when I was using Linux in the 00s automatic updates could break your system. People should no how to boot from a liveUSB and learn how to rollback their systems in case an update breaks something.
Fedora is my daily driver, but Firewalld is a complicated unintelligible mess to me. It is a firewall that a huge corporation with thousands of incoming and outgoing connections would use. How am I supposed to know which of hundreds of cryptically named processes are safe to allow in or outgoing connections?
😂fedora is telemetry sh hole like windows
oh i just want something hard enough to be a streamer and be as immune-as-I-can-be to false swattings
*updates arch linux once a week*
*arch breaks a month later*
thanks techlore!
That’s funny. I have done the more extreme and litterally update arch whenever I see updates which is usually daily and never had it break on me. Of course I use the LTS kernel so that could be why and my hardware who knows.
@@warhawk_yt do you switch between kernels or do u just use the LTS
@@uzikun I prefer to just use the LTS. I have like a 10 year old machine so I don’t need any of the features the newer kernel has.
I'm surprised you didn't reccomend arch, gentoo, void, or linux from scratch.
For me, Zorin OS is the most usable. Distro. Mint is OK but it is not all that usable. Mint Mate is just simply bare bones.
thanks
ah yes, Qubes, the dooms day bunker of the virtual world.
sunglasses sign on his nose 😂
Remove it and install OpenBSD?
Is NOD32 Better Thean SELinux ?
Secure Enhance Linux 15:17
I managed to get to @1:45 and now I am commenting - I am sorry, but device password is not your first line of defense. LUKS or any other disk encryption should ALWAYS be your first line of defense.
Good to know
Its Fedora all along
Need a # for social media verification please and thank you :)
gonna do a OpenBSD or ChromeOS guide? :P
ChromeOS is just a simplified gentoo that glows
OpenBSD
I Use arch BTW
Oh man i don't even know what a distro is
"Delete Google!!" proceeds to have a youtube channel
Is ubuntu good for privacy?
Hey! Due to time constraints we can't answer all individuals questions like this. Feel free to ask our members in our community. :)
I want a linux phone. 🥺
what if we hardening pen-testing OS ? sounds like hacker doing hacking stuff anonymously.
It is not recommended to use a hacker distro like Kali for normal use.
will it work on android 5 (lolipop)
Never used Linux: is there Antivirus included in the distributions? If not, why is it not recommended? Thanks!
I think there are some anti virus software for linux, but most dont use them because nearly everything in linux is open source and the programs you download are usually in the official repos of the linux distro. so as long as you dont run crazy exe files with wine from god knows where or snaps/flatpaks and so on you dont really need an anti virus software
11:54
Wait, does GPS give off a signal?
It's a receiver. The only way it sends a signal is if you have an internet connection and some app is accessing your location.
Debian FTW!!!!
Does disk encryption make any sence on a desktop pc at home?
mhh ok but than I think the bigger problem is the loss of my harddrive or my pc
@Daniel What if you break your system? Isn't it like in android that then your data will be unaccessible even if you have the password? Without encryption you can just copy out all your files.
Make a tutorial for bleach bit
Who is this video even for? Might as well just unplug the computer and move to the mountains.
Why you don't recommend kde based distros like neon
'Do your own research and pick what helps you the most'
You can't say: "Do your own research and pick what helps you the most" and then recommend something. People are lazy, they won't do their research and they'll just choose Fedora.
Debian is only good for hosting servers, and whoever reaches Arch will give up in the second minute. I'm just saying for firs distro choose something more user friendly. Kubuntu, Kde Neon and Manjaro are perfect for the first year.
*makes video that just recommends checking out other videos 🤦
Anonaddy review
Complete sentences
@@kosinusify Sure. Day whatever asking for anonaddy review
what? No Linux Mint? Cinnamon?
'Do your own research and pick what helps you the most'
@@techlore Do review for Linux Mint Cinnamon please. It is the best Linux Distro for most people and it's popularity is growing.
@@anonymous76 he ain’t gonna cause he’s a windows user
@@ransacked That is unfortunate. I am windows user too but trying alternatives can be beneficial for user in some cases. He as youtuber with this type of content should promote alternatives to privacy invasive OS like Windows.
@@anonymous76 yeah man I feel you. I use Ubuntu in my day to day with windows in a VM for gaming. I deff can recommend mint to anyone. I just don’t use it because cinnamon has these weird frame rate issues on my computer even though I have decent specs.
Linux Mint is the best Linux dustro ever! Other are $hit don't even try them (except Tails OS and Kali)
Bla bla bla everyone has different needs !
I like Mint, Fedora, Solus OS, POP OS and on different devices for different people I will install different distoro.
There is no one the best.
@Dio Titus LOL what a joke
@@zmieniamyinternet3172 Agree, thats why I add exception for Tails because it is more private(but it is not for everyday use) and Kali Linux because it is good for other things. But Linux Mint is the best overall Linux Distro handsdown. Ubuntu do not respect privacy, others are not as complete as Mint. Pop OS is ok but still miles behind.
Didn't Techlore say it quite clearly? STOP. GATEKEEPING!!
@@zmieniamyinternet3172 Jepp! Brave words of a real Linux- power-user! Of course, all distros are great!
I am interested.
You talk too fast. You could make three videos and talk slower. I could not keep up. I quit watching.
Thumbs up anyway. I am not subscribing at this time
I would suggest removing sudo entirely. - its a huge attack vector. even the most recent version of parrot-OS and Debian has an un-patched local exploit - try it yourself by typing this in a regular terminal and see if you get root access. your user does not have to even be in the sudoers file.: sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536 you can remove sudo by doing an apt-get purge sudo on debian based distros, and just use su root, or a sudo replacement.
>no built in spyware
Makes me feel calm