TL;DR - About switching from Linux Mint to Qubes OS from among various other options that try to provide security out-of-the-box (also discussed: OpenBSD, SculptOS, Ghaf, GrapheneOS)

  • aaravchen@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    SELinux is used on all the Fedora Immutable distros, and the OpenSUSE Immutable distro. It’s actually much easier to do SELinux in Immutable distros in a lot of ways than non-immutable. Especially the bootc-style ones where even more of the system is defined and prebuilt before deployment.

    AppArmor is OK, but the whole issue is that you have to know what to throw into it. That’s also its benefit, you can focus in the high risk things and ignore the low risk things. It keeps expanding profiles more and more though, and ironically the ultimate destination is everything being under MAC.

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      5 hours ago

      Well, that’s because it’s a first party solution. From NixOS point of view SELinux is mutating the store which is forbidden