• jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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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.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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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