How to make my linux distro more secure?

Just installed Linux Mint. How do I make it more secure? I know there are not many viruses out there for Linux. At the same time there is still a chance for viruses. Without scanners anything like that I wont even be able to tell if there is spyware or a virus on my computer with the small chance I might get one. Any suggestions?

1. Keep updated
2. Don't run nonfree software

Done

Yeah but what about saving pictures etc?

Install Common Sense 2019.

unplug the network adapter

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Linux Mint must have the worst security of all the big distros my man. The distro is a frankenmix of Ubuntu, Debian and custom packages. It's set to delay important updates by default. They don't have security advisories and so on and so on.
The only reason Mint got popular was because they included Adobe Flash and some media codecs by default so normies didn't have to do a Google search
tl;dr you can't make Linux Mint secure

>Linux
That's your problem right there. Linux has so many moving parts the attack surface is like a fucking fractal. Either Mac or Windows along with cyber security training is the only way to remain unpwnable

>Either Mac or Windows along with cyber security training is the only way to remain unpwnable

>Actually recommending Windows is safer than linux

>mint
>secure
Pick one only.

install gentoo

am i getting memed?

You don't.

>M-muh copypasta makes me look cool!
Piss off soyboy

OHH BOI let me give you som advices :
NUMBER ONE : DOWNLOAD TOR BROWSER.
NUMBER TWO : GET TURBO_PROXY_SERVICE
NUMBER THREE : FIND IN INTERNET MCAFFE OR AVAST FOR MINT.

AND THEN YOU LL BE THE MOSt secured.

Installed mint 15 in the last year (shellshock, heartbleed, several kernel, gstreamer and browser exploit) and never updated. Still kicking.

>mint
they even got hacked and malware was distributed in the distro some months ago, google it. Also they deactivate security updates by default, not even ubuntard does that. Mint is truly the most insecure distro, they had been told many times about their amateurish approach to security but the just ignore the advice. Its just a shitty amateurish ubuntu-debian derivative with superficial better looking WM and codecs.

Disable servers like HTTP, SSH, etc. that you're not using.

Linux is a kernel.

You're already more secure by the virtue of not being a target of most things out there.

I know a command that will ensure that your linux mint system is secure if you type it every single week

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Are you talking about when their website got hacked?

/thread

Linux Mint is the full name of the distro, smartass

What's wrong with saving pictures?

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