i’ve been thinking more about what it would take to make TailsOS a “daily driver” OS for more people.
i really like a lot about TailsOS, but i still go back to MacOS for most things (e.g., no Adobe suite on TailsOS)
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whonix is what people use for a daily driver, that or qubes
oh, i’ve yet to play with those. are they similarly etched/booted right off a usb stick?
no, they are both distros which use virtualization and push all traffic through tor. Whonix runs a gateway instance which is connected to the internet through tor only and forces all traffic through tor on one vm and then has another vm with your desktop and files and stuff which is never online except through the gateway vm.
qubes isn't even rally a linux distro technically because it uses some weird hypervisor thing on bare metal, which then compartmentalizes everything you are doing in it's own disposable vm. the vm's have different linux distro presets and security levels and stuff. I have never used qubes as it is too resource hungry for my old computers but I liked whonix and used it exclusively for a few months a while back.
A different frame here is that, as the law of the jungle states, you don't want to stand out too much out of the herd.
If somehow you are THE person that has all traffic through Tor, then I think three letter agency would probably be more interested in you by default. How hard would it be do have "if-condition" like that somewhere in the automated system?