I’m currently embracing the way of privacy and anonimity and saw the repo of hackliberty, they say to use alpine linux but I was also looking to stuff like openBSD or just hardening the arch build I use rn, what do you think about that? openBSD could be a good choice as daily drive or I should follow the community and try alpine, sorry if the question is dumb but I’m still learning.
Let me tell you a secret: any linux distribution is a kernel + a set of pre-installed drivers and programs + their configs. Nothing more than that! Most distributions use the same kernel and roughly the same set of programs. The only differences are in the desktop environment and initial settings.
I would recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) as a start choice. Do not trust those who say that if you choose a “beginner’s distro” you won’t have to get into the console or text configs. Your choice of distro will determine how often you’ll do this.
As a regular user, I’ve used different distributions and always something didn’t work. Many issues couldn’t be solved via GUI, so I had to deep dive into both the console and all Linux services.
P.S. Arch Linux daily-driver.
This is the truth
+1 for Arch, I also chose arch because I wanted something more challenging than a “beginner distro” as you said because I already know something about linux and I’m still learning, the stuff that I miss are more about privacy and security, I know some stuff and I dont know other stuff, thats why I search for people who knows more than me, thanks for the help!
P.S. I use arch btw