Other systems should not be able to see your data on a Linux install as long as the disk is encrypted, which is proposed during the install of many distros.

AFAIU, ransomware will try to lock all devices, USB drives, etc, so no, your Linux install is not safe from that if it is on the same machine. Even machine on the same network might be at risk.

How to prevent ? Backup! Loosing your entire machine data should not be an issue but just a matter of re-installing the OS and recovering your data from a backup. Have at least two backup, including one outside of your house.

About dualbooting though… Putting Windows + anything else on a single drive is a really bad idea and Windows WILL try and take over it, at least breaking the boot partition. More concerning, and it actually happened to me recently: when putting a Linux on one disk and Windows on an other in the same machine, the Windows somehow still managed to break the Linux boot partition…

So if you can afford it and really want to have both OS, you should try and have two machines or at least install Linux on a drive that you can easily unplug.

I hope this will be helpful, good luck!

It’s atomic Fedora with KDE

Plan 9 it is !

Thanks for the detailed reply! You’re not the first to mention gitops for k8s, it seems interesting indeed, I’ll be sure to check it!

I see, that makes sense actually! Thanks for the message!

I saw the landscape website before, that’s a LOT of projects! =O

My goal is to have a k3s cluster as a deployment env and try and run the services I’m already using. I don’t need to have any advance load balancing, I just want pods to be restarted if one of my machine stops.

How about I’ll do anyway? <3

I’ll check it! Thanks!

Wow that’s a lot of detail and information ! Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of this !

For the note taking part, it should be okay, I’m putting everything in my org-roam notes, including my current Ansible setup and my microOS combustion script!

For the rest, I’ll need to try it step by step; at the moment I think my problem is actually how to access the services with Traefik, I guess it will be an important step once I’ll figure it out.

Thanks again for the help!

Never heard about this way to use podman before! Thanks for letting me know!

Thanks, I’ll check these more in detail!

Aeon desktop is the best indeed:

• Crazy fast install.
• System configuration is done on the first boot.
• Supports ignition and combustion.
• The install USB can become a $HOME backup if you re-install.
• Full disk encryption by default and mandatory.
• Latest GNOME, looks clean and pretty.
• Rolling.
• Immutable, with Distrobox by default.

As far as desktop Linux goes, I don’t see why I would use anything else atm. Give it a try!

Mf was real bored

PARAGRAPHS, mf! Do you speak it?!

I set and update my containers with Ansible. It works well, but it’s a bit slow and it’s a whole setup on top of your deployment!

Always advocating for that but Aeon Desktop (immutable OpenSUSE) has been great for me: rock solid base system, latest Gnome desktop, all the apps in Flatpak. Distrobox for all the terminal applications needs works better for me than the toolbox on systems like Silverblue. Give it a try!

Cute gekko

Trisquel provides a good experience out of the box imo, as long as your hardware is supported and if you don’t mind the dated looking interface. I used it for a while on my corebooted laptop.

I didn’t used much any other “100% libre” distros. As much as I wanted to use it, I never managed to have Guix to run on that machine.

[edit:] to answer OP’s question, I would use a distro that ships with it.

Neat! I used it as well but I would rather use dwm or xfce recently.

Got it. Thanks you! I might actually get one and try to go immutable on it…