1. General Security and Privacy

   Most people are ok with this level of security and privacy on their systems and I agree if you think this will be just enough effort from your side to limit your data collection. Taking a small measure like this is completely fine than not doing anying at all, also these small steps can be a begining of you taking these things seriously and proceed to do more in future.

2. Special Security and Privacy

   This level is for those who take their security and privacy seriously and don’t want to compromise even a single bit of their data.

3. Anonimity Measures

   These are some anonymity measures to even enhance the level two.

These are the softwares I daily drive for being productive

Operating System

There are many Operating Systems out there but my choice is clear

• GNU/Linux (I use Arch BTW)

Shell

• Fish
• Bash

Terminal Emulator

• Alacritty
• Kitty
• Ghostty or Wezterm are also great

Window Manager

• Hyprland

Web Browser

I use 3-4 web browsers each for a differnt task

• LibreWolf
• Zen Browser
• Tor Browser

File Manager

Simple and functional just gets the job done without much headache

• Thunar

Integrated Development Enviornment/Text Editor

• Neovim
• Kate by KDE (good GUI alternative if you don’t like neovim)
• Gedit for basic files edit

Image Viewer and Editor

• GIMP
• Feh (only image viewer)

Office Suite

• LibreOffice
• Zathura PDF Viewer
• Okular is also a great document viewer, I always have it installed, it can be bloated though as it requires a lot of KDE and qt dependencies

Credentials Manager

• KeePassXC
• Cyptomator

Media Player

• VLC
• FreeTube

Network Traffic Analyser

• WireShark

Version Control

• Git
• Also trying jj since recently

Containerization

• Podman
• Kubernetes

Virtualization

• KVM (I use Whonix VM)

Terminal Utilities

• Fzf
• cURL
• Nix
• Tmux