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What is the most secure linux os for torrenting and such? (lemm.ee)

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Im very paranoid about getting into piracy and im not sure if i should or it or not but there are so many things i want that i cant afford.

is there a secure linux os that i can use without a vpn? im pretty use to windows 10 but i was told linux mint is good for this kind of stuff, is that true?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The MOST secure? Qubes OS!

https://www.qubes-os.org/

Everything runs inside of a VM. VMs have very limited connectivity between each other you have to explicitly set that up.

So for your privacy, and good hygiene, you would set up a VPN inside of one of the VMs Make that the mandatory networking VM for your torrent VM. Then no matter what, your torrent VM would never leak.

Here is a tutorial https://mullvad.net/en/help/qubes-os-4-and-mullvad-vpn/

It takes a little getting used to, but it's pretty good as a daily driver. Because of the segmentation, even if there is local exploits, it's unlikely that the exploit will expose your other VMs. So your networking VMs are the most at risk, then you're browsing VMs, so you keep your data vaults in different VMs.

They have some great tutorials, it'll runs Linux under Xen as the hypervisor. There's a little gymnastics around copying and pasting between VMs, and moving files, but it's pretty intuitive once you get used to it.

And this is still useful even if you're not running a VPN, because you are segmenting your different programs, so you get data hygiene even if you don't get a anonymity