• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    12 days ago

    Gui to manage firewall.

    which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

    Desktop icons.

    you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

    Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.

    manually, or even automatically? if it’s the first, check out DKMS

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      11 days ago

      Gui to manage firewall. which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

      Which which one?

      I use firewalld regularly. Firewalld isn’t a GUI, and it’s a wrapper around Nftables and/or iptables depending on the distribution.

      I haven’t tried opensnitch.

      Desktop icons. you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

      Not having to use a Gnome extension to get desktop icons. 🙂 Although, other DEs aren’t much better.

      Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade. manually, or even automatically? if it’s the first, check out DKMS

      DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

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        11 days ago

        Which which one?

        netfilter, iptables, or one that is based on them

        Firewalld isn’t a GUI

        that’s right, but it has an official GUI: https://firewalld.org/documentation/utilities/firewall-config.html

        I haven’t tried opensnitch.

        it has per-app rules, and can show a popup for programs that don’t yet have a rule. you can also limit the access by time, destination, and port

        DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

        in my experience every kind of update requires planning and a reboot because incompatibilities between new libs and already running older programs will cause problems. but DKMS may help in making it less of a work