#opensnitch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opensnitch, aggregated by home.social.
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I've seen a lot of posts lately about #LittleSnitch which has been on my radar for a while. It supports #Linux now which is great. But it's not fully opensource.
I found #opensnitch and wow it's great. Reminds me of what I consider to be "peak windows" days, early 2000s when the zonealarm firewall was popular.
#Nostalgia will getcha!
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I've seen a lot of posts lately about #LittleSnitch which has been on my radar for a while. It supports #Linux now which is great. But it's not fully opensource.
I found #opensnitch and wow it's great. Reminds me of what I consider to be "peak windows" days, early 2000s when the zonealarm firewall was popular.
#Nostalgia will getcha!
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I've seen a lot of posts lately about #LittleSnitch which has been on my radar for a while. It supports #Linux now which is great. But it's not fully opensource.
I found #opensnitch and wow it's great. Reminds me of what I consider to be "peak windows" days, early 2000s when the zonealarm firewall was popular.
#Nostalgia will getcha!
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I've seen a lot of posts lately about #LittleSnitch which has been on my radar for a while. It supports #Linux now which is great. But it's not fully opensource.
I found #opensnitch and wow it's great. Reminds me of what I consider to be "peak windows" days, early 2000s when the zonealarm firewall was popular.
#Nostalgia will getcha!
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I've seen a lot of posts lately about #LittleSnitch which has been on my radar for a while. It supports #Linux now which is great. But it's not fully opensource.
I found #opensnitch and wow it's great. Reminds me of what I consider to be "peak windows" days, early 2000s when the zonealarm firewall was popular.
#Nostalgia will getcha!
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I saw that Little Snitch is now available for #Linux.
As far as I’m aware, there’s already #OpenSnitch for Linux.
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I saw that Little Snitch is now available for #Linux.
As far as I’m aware, there’s already #OpenSnitch for Linux.
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I saw that Little Snitch is now available for #Linux.
As far as I’m aware, there’s already #OpenSnitch for Linux.
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I saw that Little Snitch is now available for #Linux.
As far as I’m aware, there’s already #OpenSnitch for Linux.
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I installed OpenSnitch today after having seen a post about it on BlueSky (I think). It's a nice application firewall which gives you even more control over what leaves your computer.
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Wow oh wow. Any strategies for how to manage OpenSnitch on NixOS? It's a cool tool but the constant popups for everything that connects to the internet is just... a lot.
And, unfortunately, because of how nix works, each rule I allow via the popup assigns the /nix/store binary path to the rule, so I don't expect the rules to survive a rebuild.
I've already used it to strip out all of the advertising domains, and my next target is for blocking AI slop domains. For that alone is worth it.
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So I'm the kind of wacko who has #opensnitch set up to manually filter any address my computer connects to. Despite using a base block list, browsing was absolute hell for a week until my rules covered enough ground to block most of the repeat offenders. I usually allow the domain I'm visiting and its subdomains, period.
The amount of domains one can block before a website breaks is telling. It also made me realise that #Firefox sends a request to the domain of ALL THE LINKS YOU CURSOR HOVERS which seems like a massive breach of privacy. #Librewolf doesn't.
Anyway, watching #Peertube is obviously quite challenging with this setup, because of the "peers" in the tube. What I don't understand is why there isn't a consistent port I can unblock, each request seem to use a random port.
Can anyone help me make sense of this please?
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@greg_harvey For me it's the other way around. It's #OpenSnitch that's making me paranoid with all the warnings all the time...
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Ich habe eben #OpenSnitch unter #Arch installiert und mich gewundert, warum das Programm nicht gleich funktioniert. Gewundert habe ich mich auch, wie wenig aus dem System heraus "telefoniert"... #Arch bzw. Linux halt! 😀 👍
Der im Zusammenhang mit dem Programm #OpenSnitch im Hintergrund laufende Dienst läuft nicht auf Anhieb! Er muss anscheinend unter #Arch manuell gestartet werden.Installation:
sudo pacman -S opensnitch
OpenSnitch Dienste starten...
`sudo systemctl enable --now opensnitchd.service`
.... gerne! 😜 👍
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#Firewall auf #Linux - #Tutorial für #Anfänger und #Fortgeschrittene [ #GUFW, #OpenSnitch ]
In diesem Video zeigt Jean, was eine #Firewall ist, wie sie funktioniert und wie man sie mithilfe der #Programme #Gufw und #OpenSnitch einrichten kann.
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I wonder if #Linux users on Fediverse have heard of OpenSnitch, and if they are using it, how handy the have found it? Do you use it in daily basis? Home to work computer?
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#opensnitch 1.8.0 released
GUI migrated to PyQt6
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
#adminlife #opensource #linux
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I installed OpenSnitch https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch?tab=readme-ov-file (h/t to @Viss for finding it!), which is a Linux app like the Mac's awesome Little Snitch.
This is a *great* thing for keeping an eye on out-bound network connections so you can block anything unexpected. You'll know right away if something calls home; telemetry, advertising crap, malware, etc.
Initial setup is painful though due to the zillion notifications from whatever you're already using. Worth it though!
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@Viss I have to say i do love that lil snitch bitch and now even more #opensnitch #process checker #can'thide
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I just spent 3 days trying to debug an issue with my self hosted wireguard vpn and I just wanna make this post so that anyone trying to do the same thing doesn't go through the suffering I did.
So I have a server at home and I wanted to be able to connect to it via vpn. I set up wireguard on it and then on my phone and laptop. The phone worked fine but the laptop didn't. Why?
I started debugging it 3 days ago and tried everything.tcpdumpdidn't show any packets leaving my laptop, I flushed nftables and made sure ufw was disabled and tried everything.
Eventually I got to an even lower level and encountered ebpf, which I'm aware of but never used before. Seeing this a neuron activated and I remembered that opensnitch used ebpf. So I turned it off and lo and behold, vpn works.
There were no signs early on that opensnitch was doing something. I'd completely forgotten it was running.
Call me stupid or whatever for having a weird setup, I'm just tired. ima go eat something now.
I ended up allowing traffic from the wireguard port but if anyone knows a better rule for opensnitch lmk
#wireguard #opensnitch #vpn #selfhosted #networking #ebpf -
#openSnitch Version 1.7.0.0 Released
OpenSnitch is an open-source application designed to provide a firewall for #Linux systems, specifically focusing on monitoring and controlling outgoing network connections. It acts as a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that alerts users when applications attempt to make network connections, allowing them to decide whether to allow or block these connections.
#adminnlife #security #opensource
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Big probleem wit @linuxmint and #OpenSnitch 1.7.0 RC2
Starts but does run. Firewall gated out.
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#OpenSnitch 1.6.8 released
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
#adminlife #opensource #linux
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#OpenSnitch interactieve #firewall for #Linux. Monitoren en blokkeren waar nodig.
Bron: @linuxmagazine
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Linux application firewall OpenSnitch
For many years there was no decent application firewall software for Linux.
Since a few years OpenSnitch has been packaged for a few Linux distributions.
Is OpenSnitch for you ?
Maybe not actually, it can be quite annoying having to choose what to allow and what not after a reboot of your computer if you are using more than just a few applications that need network access.
Why would you use it ? If you like to have more control about outgoing network connections from applications on your Linux desktop.
Do I like it ? Yes.
What did I learn with it ? Not much, but I remember wanting to saving html content from a newspaper site in LibreOffice for a friend (Usually I skip photos and want only text when I save an article for myself to read again later) and OpenSnitch came with a pop-up question because LibreOffice tried to connect to the newspaper site to fetch some missing images (or fonts ?).
Correction : Apologies. My memory was wrong. It was LibreOffice itself that asked to download missing remote content.
This information (That LibreOffice wants to fetch things) is not completely unimportant to me because I use VPN or Tor browser or i2p or Tor by other means or just plain Internet, and when I use the latter I prefer to only do this for a limited amount of sites.
More on OpenSnitch, Key Features, OpenSnitch in action (video) and more,
see here : https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
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#openSnitch 1.6.7 released
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
#adminlife #opensource
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Every time that #OpenSnitch gets an update it is cause for celebration! A regularly updated application based firewall on #Linux ? Yes please
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@therealahall I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a #Mac to a #Linux system running #Ubuntu 24.04 (but I also installed #QuickEMU so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.
In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.
For a terminal program I am using #Tabby but while it is pretty good it is no #iTerm2. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).
For Mastodon I am trying #Tuba but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.
For a #RSS reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.
In place of Little Snitch I am using #OpenSnitch, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.
I use #Joplin in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time.
I use #Timeshift and #BackInTime instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is #Cronopete but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.
At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!
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@therealahall I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a #Mac to a #Linux system running #Ubuntu 24.04 (but I also installed #QuickEMU so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.
In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.
For a terminal program I am using #Tabby but while it is pretty good it is no #iTerm2. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).
For Mastodon I am trying #Tuba but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.
For a #RSS reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.
In place of Little Snitch I am using #OpenSnitch, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.
I use #Joplin in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time.
I use #Timeshift and #BackInTime instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is #Cronopete but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.
At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!
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@therealahall I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a #Mac to a #Linux system running #Ubuntu 24.04 (but I also installed #QuickEMU so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.
In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.
For a terminal program I am using #Tabby but while it is pretty good it is no #iTerm2. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).
For Mastodon I am trying #Tuba but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.
For a #RSS reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.
In place of Little Snitch I am using #OpenSnitch, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.
I use #Joplin in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time.
I use #Timeshift and #BackInTime instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is #Cronopete but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.
At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!
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@therealahall I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a #Mac to a #Linux system running #Ubuntu 24.04 (but I also installed #QuickEMU so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.
In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.
For a terminal program I am using #Tabby but while it is pretty good it is no #iTerm2. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).
For Mastodon I am trying #Tuba but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.
For a #RSS reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.
In place of Little Snitch I am using #OpenSnitch, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.
I use #Joplin in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time.
I use #Timeshift and #BackInTime instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is #Cronopete but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.
At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!
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@therealahall I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a #Mac to a #Linux system running #Ubuntu 24.04 (but I also installed #QuickEMU so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.
In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.
For a terminal program I am using #Tabby but while it is pretty good it is no #iTerm2. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).
For Mastodon I am trying #Tuba but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.
For a #RSS reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.
In place of Little Snitch I am using #OpenSnitch, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.
I use #Joplin in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time.
I use #Timeshift and #BackInTime instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is #Cronopete but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.
At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!
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Big under the hood update for the Linux application firewall #OpenSnitch on #NixOS 🚀 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/276468 #readyforreview
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@engineerminded Also another problem is that many #Linux distros don't offer the types of software that users want, but some add on a lot of unwanted bloat. For example #LinuxMint is supposed to be a user-friendly distro but they install tons of additional software that you may never use. What they should do is at the time of installation, give you the option to go with the standard package of applications (for "give me all the goodies" types) OR to pick the packages you really want from a list. But then they don't offer some types of packages that people might actually want for security or privacy reasons, such as #OpenSnitch (a Linux application-specific firewall equivalent to the #MacOS #LittleSnitch program) or a good password manager such as #KeePassXC, or a good full-system backup utility similar to the #MacOS #TimeMachine program (most Linux backup utilities only back up a subset of the system, such as user files only or system files only, and none have the equivalent of the #MacOS #MigrationAssistant which lets you restore your applications, settings, and data to a new machine, or if your main storage fails and you have to replace it). The lack of an equivalent to Time Machine/Migration Assistant is one of the major reasons I have not personally gone to Linux on my desktop.