Noble_bacon

I've found this video very useful when i installed Graphene.

The answer to your question can be found on minute 07:00.

I've been using Graphene for a while. Here are some things i've changed and found useful:

I really like the storage scopes feature. Whenever an app requests access to storage/contacts, i setup scopes for it. This feature alone makes me never want to leave Graphene.

I also really like the random mac adress feature. Whenever i connect to wi-fi, my mac adress gets randomized to appear as a different device, (except on my LAN, otherwise, my router would be flooded with different devices that in reality, are the same).

Multiple profiles is also a nice feature. I've used them before, but now i just use everything under the root profile, even Google services. Since they run in a sandbox, i'm ok with it. This is probably something you want to avoid if your threat model requires you to, but i have found that for banking apps, it was a major drawback for me, that i had to switch profiles everytime i wanted to acess them. And even worst, if i wanted to send documents over e-mail, since my e-mail was on my non-Google profile, it was very annoying, so, i simply went with everything under root.

The on/off toogle for camera & microphone is also really nice. I use it all the time.

I've also set a 1 min timer to disable my wi-fi when i have no active connection, (e.g when i leave my house).

I've changed my DNS to a more private one, (currently using family.dns.mullvad.net).

On settings, if you go to NFC, you have an option to request device unlock to use NFC. I've set this to on, dispite having NFC off all the time.

As someone who distrohoped quite a bit, let me give you some advice:

• Try the new distro in a VM first.
• Configure your distro as you want and put all the commands you used in a script to use when you make the switch.
• Ask your self, what do i get from distrohoping? Is it really worth it?
• Create a dotfilles git repo with all of your configs. Create a script to install your dotfiles easily. (Either by copying them to .config or creating symlinks)

Remember that, at the end, linux is linux, remember that you can customize you distro to look exactly like the fancy one you saw.

Agree to disagree.

It is a main reason to use a VPN, that's for sure.

It is not the only one, but any pirate in countries like Germany that does not use a VPN is cooked.

A VPN is something that, was created to let you remotelly access another network.

Say for example that you want to connect to your LAN from a coffee shop. That's why they were created in the first place.

Now, they were popularized as something else.

The benefits of the nowadays VPNs are mainly privacy and piracy related.

The reasons most people use a VPN are essentially:

• Hide your traffic from your ISP. (By doing so, you are allowing your VPN provider to see everything you do while connected. Just like your ISP would, if you weren't)

• Hide your real IP behing one of your VPN's server. (Usefull for torrenting and keeping anonymity)

• Bypass geolocation restrictions. (e.g Watching U.S Netflix from Europe)

Do note that, if ypu are going to route your traffic through a VPN, you are giving your provider access to your online activities.

Choose your provider wisely!

Choose a VPN with a strict no logs policy, RAM only servers and strong privacy policies. (Open Source if you can).

Reputable names in the VPN world are Mullvad and Proton VPN.

Avoid the traps of budget VPN or highly advertised ones!

This is quite a rabbit hole you are getting yourself into, but to keep it short and relatively simple, you need to figure out something very important beforehand:

• Do you want a rolling release or a stable distro?

I'm assuming that, you are not yet familiar with these terms, so let's go with the stable distros.

You have a lot of options here, most of them will all be based of Ubuntu, which is based in Debian, so let me drop a few generally good suggestions in no particular order:

• Linux Mint
• MX Linux
• ZorinOS
• PopOS
• Fedora, (This one is not a stable distro, but you should be good with it)

Either of these is a good starting point. If down the road you feel like they stop fitting your needs, start exploring the big three, (Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux).