Linux

• BlendOS allows installing packages from multiple distros Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch.
• elementary OS bills itself as a thoughtful, capable, ethical replacement for Windows and macOS. It is based on Ubuntu.
• omarchy is a DHH project based on Arch and Hyperland. Essentially a dotfiles repo.

Debian

Find ip address: ip addr

WiFi From the Command Line

Desktop Environments

Budgie is a refined version of GNOME. Lacks significant support channels as of 2023-01-31.

systemd

systemd by example

Harden VPS security

1. Set root users password to randomly generated value

2. Create local user

3. Copy authorized_key to local user

4. Logout/SSH in as local user

5. su -

6. Disable root login and password auth for ssh

   sed -i -E 's/^(#)?PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
   sed -i -E 's/^(#)?PermitRootLogin (prohibit-password|yes)/PermitRootLogin no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
   

7. SSH Hardening

8. Restart ssh systemctl restart ssh