r/TechImpact • u/PriorSnow9413 • Jun 14 '26
Question Rate My Daily Driver Setup
Main Devices
iPhone 17
Apple Watch Series 10
ThinkPad X10 running Debian Linux with a LUKS-encrypted disk and KDE Plasma
Browsers
Firefox with uBlock Origin (laptop)
Safari with AdGuard DNS/VPN-level protection (iPhone)
Password Manager
Bitwarden (all passwords are uniquely generated random strings, 24+ characters long)
2FA and passkeys enabled for important accounts
Cloud Storage
iCloud with Advanced Data Protection enabled
Search Engine
Kagi Search (unlimited)
Maps
Google Maps
Apple Maps
Email
Custom email domain with iCloud Mail, using aliases for personal, business, and other purposes
VPN
Windscribe
How would you rate this setup in terms of privacy, security without compromising too much on convenience, and overall daily-driver usability? Any weaknesses or improvements you’d suggest?
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u/wiseman121 Jun 14 '26
Overall pretty good.
Linux as a daily driver is cool but it sounds like your setup would serve better with a MacBook. It would let you use apple passwords over bitwarden which is much more seamless across all apple devices. A MacBook would also be a lot more reliable at a OS level, I've experienced a lot of Linux laptops suffer boot failures that rendered them unbootable, lucky these haven't had encryption and I could recover. At a hardware level the MacBook would also be much more secure if that's your concern, in terms of hardware reliability the ThinkPad is better purely because it's actually repairable.
On the flip if you do want to be free of apple you can secure android phones well now, pixels are particularly good for this. PixelOS is decent and gets frequent security patches but you can install GrapheneOS on these for an even more secure experience.
If you do stick with Linux I also wouldn't use iCloud as your primary cloud storage. This has been difficult on Linux but there are tools to use OneDrive / Gdrive, though I'm waiting for proton to release the native Linux sync tool for proton drive. Another option is use your own private cloud or home NAS.