I dont understand why there is nothing like Orbot for Linux.
systemd-resolved is a pretty good standard, so one could base on that. Why not implement a tor proxy systemwide, combine that with live Fedora, containers, Flatpak and all that?
There is torvirt which is pretty cool, tor configured in a podman container and set up for virtual machines.
Then there is the new App Carburetor, a Flatpak GUI for creating a tor proxy. But that is not system wide.
I think two systems are useful
Live USB
- everything included
- persistent storage including
/var/lib/flatpakand/var/home - encryption
- torproxy, preinstalled apps etc.
persistent install
- same as live but persistent, no custom partitions
- torproxy in a podman container?
- VMs using torvirt
- some preinstalled secure flatpaks (Portals, Wayland, etc.)
Tails is so old, without basically all the modern features the Linux desktop has, Flatpaks, isolated containers, namespaces (with their potential security risks), a different Desktop than that ugly old GNOME…
Why is Tails the only OS that has this? afaik Kali has an “anonymous mode” too okay, but that is not well known. I can imagine the distributed form is quite unconventional, but creating a persistent storage and mounting some directories from it doesnt sound that bad?