i have created a short questionnaire, regarding how GNU/Linux users secure their system. if you are somewhat knowledgeful on this topic and willing to share, i would appreciate if you would fill out my questionnaire
okay, so, my research is finished. here are the results:
The “other” distributions include: NixOS (8x), Gentoo (4x), Slackware (1x), Void Linux (1x) or a combination of multiple distributions
I filled your survey. It would be nice if you could share the results once it’s completed.
thanks, will post results soon
posted some of the results
Wtf I’m the only one who waits months to update?
That’s me, tbh it’s annoying to install update if there are 5 or 10 packages to update.
I just wait until it show much more update, so…usually i waited 3 month maxMe and my 4000 packages waiting to update
4000 packages update ??? nah…it’s rookie number bro, just wait loooooong enough so when you updated your system will crashed or show tons of error message after reboot
Never experienced this
When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.
Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.
Some of the stuff I would do if my system was held together by more than literally just hopes and dreams.
It’s nice getting a glimpse as to what fraction of Linux users are using disk encryption. Full disk encryption is becoming the default on mainstream OSes, but not in most of the Linux installers I’ve encountered. Always made me curious just how many people went out of their way to encrypt their Linux install.
I personally encrypt everything except for VMs already in an encrypted device or USB drives that need to work with non-Linux machines. It’d be interesting to hear what other people’s reasons to encrypt their disks or not are.
I propose asking if the person is primarily using a laptop or a desktop computer. For example: I do use disk encryption and Secure Boot on my laptop, but not on my desktop.
Okay, my survey is complete. I posted updated results, with data from 150 responses. The wording on question 2 and 3 might have been too confusing, sorry for that.
