this is perfect! thanks for sharing
That's a great question. I think Henry from techlore makes solid videos, so I'd start there: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tor+techlore
On the other side of the spectrum would be this great long resource that requires going step by step over multiple sessions: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
Discussion
This visualization is good. To get to decent anonymity for most folks it's either Tor Browser or using Tails.
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)
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.