Does Mint have Apparmor installed?

It is default on OpenSUSE. When you add a new application you start apparmor, run your application through its normal use, it “learns” how the system is used by the app, you then apply this as an enforce option or warn option. If the app deviates it gets blocked or warning generated.

Also OpenSUSE has a hardening GUI that looks at your system and configs and lists out all the areas that pass, fail or need attention. It is a great visual tool, and gives explanations/suggestions. Maybe there is Mint package that emulates this. Yast Security Center (see image)

https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-security-yast-security.html

If you don’t know the zypper commands just go into the GUI Yast Software tool, click on the various heading drop downs.

Under Options drop-down you can check the option “Cleanup when deleting packages”

Under View filter you can select Uneeded Packages, click to uncheck the boxes of what shows up and Apply.

Also these are handy sheets.

https://en.opensuse.org/images/1/17/Zypper-cheat-sheet-1.pdf

https://en.opensuse.org/images/3/30/Zypper-cheat-sheet-2.pdf

Gnome keyring should remember your partitions that have password encryption, there is a setting to unlock gnome keys with login. If you mean before login then cryptab and fstab can be set to password unlock. Unless I am misunderstanding the usecase you want.

The irony is Facebook contributes to opensource linux, heavily for btrfs which they use for certain data storage.

Security threat to the US Fascist Government maybe. Maybe coinicdence that it was near Jan 20th. Maybe I am looking to deep but looks like USA is trying to be North Korea or China . Use Windows face recognition and telemetry to to track users, censor alternative OSs from public knowledge.

We have somewhat similar in Canada, not as dreadful as USA, but still what you would say anti-knowledge.

I saw this in gradeschool, kids actually trying to learn and better themselves were bullies and labeled brown-noser losers.

At University the Uni newspaper editors would dumb down articles purposely, since they thought the general reader may not understand the topic fully ( which defeats the purpose of knowledge articles ).

And random times. Some guy talking about making his tent lines taut, and the rest laughing saying you mean tight. And him saying , no tension on a rope or cable is taut, tight is for fastening bolts, etc. Then everyone being “yeah whatever idiot”

And overseas teenage relatives visiting , knowing 4-5 languages, and saying “Sorry, my English is not the best” and me trying to explain it is way better than half of the coworkers I have who only speak English. And then trying to explain to a teenager that these full grown adults have no desire to learn correct terms, grammar, spelling or punctuation.

Trying to read my wife’s family’s facebook posts is like a course in stroke cryptography.

There is a linux NTFS fix package, I forget the proper name, it tries to clean up the filesystem like windows would

Yes, but No, but. It’s like an always on self discovering VPN. No need to connect and login if you lose connection or change from WiFi to cell to Ethernet, it just figures it out. And as other commentor said it is wireguard. So you can set it up yourself without a 3rd party, just takes a little bit of tech savvy skill and trasfering some public keys between each set of connections. Tailscale just makes it effortless.

If you are setting up a secure system though you would only use a package manager that needed sudo

Hopefully smarter people than I chime in, but if the users aren’t part of sudoers then they shouldn’t be able to install anything. However app images exist, and I’m not sure if those TOR out without network control

Did you get it working, if your boot is encrypted (I think) then I think you may have a hard time. Its been about 7 years since I did it. But you can have fstab and crypttab setup to pass the password.

Cryptab should help.

Alice: says destroy the whole system they are here. Bob: Are you sure, that doesn’t sound correct? Alice: Apologies, my mistake. Ask me something else.