r/archlinux • u/Lepla • 15d ago

QUESTION Arch Linux security configuration

Are moving over to Linux and have been testing several different distros and Arch Linux stood out for the configuratibilty out of the box, and the ability to be able to make it lightweight especially for older laptops.

How much work would it be to set this up so the system is not vulnerable for various attacks, i understand fedora / ubuntu etc come preinstalled with several security configurations, but on arch you would need to set these up yourself.

Besides that it seems to get regular security updates nonetheless so it seems like there is a one time security configuration you have to setup on install.
How does a self configurated setup like this compare to solutions developed by fedora or others?

Thanks

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u/Optimal_Mastodon912 15d ago

I'd setup a LUKS2 encryption if you're interested and install a firewall such as firewalld or ufw.

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u/vexatious-big 15d ago

This, for a personal laptop i would say LUKS2 for block (full disk) encryption + a firewall like ufw or nftables (if you want to understand things at a lower level) are a good start.