SELinux and confined users, make the Linux Desktop more secure

Pantherina@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 104 points –
Security enthusiasts wanted: from beginners up to SELinux experts to make up the SELinux "Confined Users (SIG)" to foster Fedora's security capabilities
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SELinux will not magically make your system more secure. Desktop insecurity mostly boils down to poor user choices. E.g Granting vscode full access to your home folder and installing some random extension.

Flatpaks and similar "container" tools are the obvious tools to use if you care about desktop security which the Linux ecosystem still generally deems as a lesser priority over being able to gain "rootful" permissions to carry out administrative tasks.

Nothing will make your system magically more secure, but SELinux is of great help when properly set up (as is in the case of Fedora).