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what is the best privacy distro? (lemmy.world)

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For my phone, I use Graphene OS. What would be the best desktop Linux option to match the level of security and privacy that GOS provides?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope. GP explicitly mentioned security experts that Fedora employs and other security stuff that Fedora apparently has an advantage on over other distros. I wonder if they knew in particular what these advantages are because that got me curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read their comment again. The first paragraph is about privacy and Ubuntu is only mentioned at that point. Fedora's default security is only compared to nix and arch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I used Ubuntu as an example for argument's sake not as a defence for Ubuntu's privacy/security features.