Get 100$ credit for your own Linux and gaming server: https://www.linode.com/linuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en#linux ? SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp ? GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ ?️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com ? FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license. #linux #privacy #security 00:00 Intro 00:31 Sponsor: 100$ Free credit for your Linux or Gaming server 01:31 Encrypt your system or specific folders 03:36 Anti-virus 05:23 Sandboxing and application permissions 07:28 Web monitoring and blocking, & VPNs 10:08 Portable private Operating system 11:08 Web browsers & search engines 12:58 Other tools 14:40 Sponsor: Get a PC that runs Linux perfectly, from Tuxedo 15:37 Support the channel A lot of Linux distributions will offer to encrypt your hard drive when you install them. Ubuntu, PopOS, elementary OS, and a lot more, they all have this option. If you didn't enable encryption when installing your system, you can encrypt your home folder or partition after the fact using ecrypt-utils, a command line utility. ENCRYPTION TUTORIAL: https://jumpcloud.com/blog/how-to-encrypt-ubuntu-20-04-desktop-post-installation KDE has something called Plasma Vaults, that lets you create encrypted folders with a nice graphical interface, with the ability to set different passwords for each folder. You probably also have an anti virus, your best option will be ClamAV (and ClamTK, it's graphical interface). it detects trojans, viruses, malware and the like, it's open source, and it's completely free of charge. But if you want to restrict permissions for Flatpak apps, then you need Flatseal. It's an application that will list all your flatpak apps and let you grant, or remove permissions to them. If you want the benefits of a sandbox but without using Flatpak apps, you can also run any app installed from a regular package or an AppImage in a sandbox, using Firejail, and Firetools, its graphical interface. If what you want is to make sure that the apps or services you run don't do anything weird with your internet connection, then there's Safing's Portmaster. It's open source, free of charge, and it lets you monitor every network request every part of your system makes, and restrict them as you see fit. Oh, and it also has a system wide ad and tracker blocker. VPNs are a tool you can use to be more private online. I don't have any specific recommendations, but you can check the link I left in the description to TechLore's VPN chart to find one that is suitably private: https://techlore.tech/vpn.html If you regularly use public computers, or someone else's, you might want to use TAILS, a live USB, but with persistent storage that is encrypted. Your web browser will also be a big part of how private you are on the internet. If you prefer to stick to Chrome's rendering engine, then something like Brave will be way less intrusive and well configured by default, and if you don't want to encourage Google's monopoly on the internet, then Firefox is also very private, once you disable the opt-out telemetry in the Privacy and Security settings. You also have LibreWolf, which is Firefox without the telemetry and with privacy focused search engines out of the box. Speaking of which, your search engine is also something you should look at for privacy. Google or Bing are just NOT what you want for that. I personally use Ecosia as my default search engine. When Ecosia falls short, I use startpage, which is basically Google's results, but with complete anonymization of all queries, so Google doesn't know who or from where the query has been made. VIDEO ON SEARCH ENGINES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9q3qPxrTqg Bleachbit will let you delete cache files, cookies, internet history, temporary files, logs and more. If you want to just completely delete any single file, then there's GNOME File Shredder. If you need to share certain images but hide some information on it, blurring it with a gaussian blur isn't enough, as it's now relatively easy to deblur an image. Obfuscate is a simple tool that lets you hide information. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LxUF5bcRXI

If you're using Linux already, and you like to play some games, you probably already have tried your hand at Steamplay and proton. It's a great tool to play some of your windows only games, but what of the games that don't run through steam ? There is a simple solution, with Lutris. Let's see what it can do ! CheatSheet for install everything: https://medium.com/@stouff.nicolas/lutris-dxvk-wine-and-linux-drivers-cheatsheet-800e9f4004d2 What is Lutris ? Lutris is an open source game library manager that aims to centralize all your games on Linux, from your native or steamplay steam games, to your games installed through your repositories, your emulated games, and even your games running with wine. Lutris puts all of them in a single interface to start and manage these games. It also comes with a huge library of install scripts, which will make the download, installation and setup of all these games a lot easier, especially those running with Wine. How to install Lutris ? Open the lutris website: lutris.net, and go to "Download Lutris". Instructions are available for about any distro out there, whether it's adding a PPA for Ubuntu-based distros, or downloading Lutris from the AUR in Arch or Manjaro, it's a simple process, just follow the instructions on that page. Once that's done, you're all set to start importing your games. Lutris is able to import a ton of different games, from your steam games, native or enabled through steamplay, your Wine games, emulated titles, or GOG games. To start that process, click the "+" dot menu on the top left corner, and select "Import Games". You'll get a window that allows you to import selected games, or all of them, for each "runner" or game provider you enabled in Lutris's main menu, accessible by clicking on the Lutris icon in the to left corner. Once games are imported, you can simply start them from Lutris' main window, and manage them from here. DXVK and Wine Now, to play most games at an acceptable framerate, you'll need DXVK, which is a conversion layer that translates DirectX instructions into Vulkan instructions, that Linux can actually understand. Installing DXVK is a simple process on any Arch based distro, just go to the AUR, and look for dxvk-bin. On Debian, DXVK is available in the main repositories, just install the package names DXVK. Ubuntu users can download that same package and install it as well. I'll leave links in the description below so that you can get easy instructions on how to do it. Finally, for playing Windows games that do not run through steamplay or proton, and have no native Linux client, such as Blizzard games, you'll need Wine. Wine is, in short, a compatibility layer that allows some Windows program to run on Linux, without resorting to virtualization or emulation. For th ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDkeQ9eDrc