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Introduction
The Linux community is abundant with awesome projects and various other guides worth checking out, Here's some great ones that we have found - keep in mind that, while these guides are very useful, they are not fully exhaustive. More than likely you discover new software every day!
- Privacy is not an end goal, but a consistent journey that needs to be taken very seriously. Always seek help when in doubt and ensure you take everything with a grain of salt. Do not just blindly follow guides but use your own intuition!
Guides
- https://www.privacyguides.org/ - An essential guide to learning not just how to begin your privacy journey online but offers a comprehensive explanation of abstract privacy concepts that is simple to understand and by extension is assuredly not easy or quick - read with an open mind!
- https://awesome-privacy.xyz - More of a guide to tools you may find yourself wanting to use to enhance privacy, rather than an explanation. The next step from Privacy Guides, essentially.
- https://www.privacytools.io/ - Similar to Awesome Privacy, and offers a wide range of tools. This specific website is recommended very frequently.
- https://brainfucksec.github.io/firefox-hardening-guide - A guide to "de-Mozilla" and security-harden Firefox. Assess whether or not this is a good option for you - similar to privacy, it is not an easy process.
- https://rentry.co/fmhy-guides - General, yet extremely useful and even nuanced guides that you may find yourself needing for something very specific and hard to find on the internet.
- https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software - Very extensive guide of not solely Linux software but mostly open-source software that has many use cases in mind. May be helpful in picking a flavor of Linux for your specific use cases.
Wikis
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/ for Arch Linux
- https://wiki.gentoo.org/ for Gentoo
- https://wiki.debian.org/ for Debian
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki for Fedora
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com for Ubuntu
Tools
- https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ - Used for debloating and removing telemetry from Windows.
- https://alternativeto.net - A tool to find alternatives to popular software, both open-source and proprietary.
- https://etcher.balena.io/ - An open-source tool to flash operating systems to an USB drive.