For my phone, I use Graphene OS. What would be the best desktop Linux option to match the level of security and privacy that GOS provides?

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      Ubuntu is bad privacy-wise because it has opt-out telemetry. The telemetry is not very invasive though and I wouldn’t really call it a privacy risk. There are other reasons to prefer other distros over Ubuntu though

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          You’re right. This only counts users though whereas Ubuntu collects information about your system

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          Counting users based on their ip VS selling user search queries to amazon (i know it got changed to opt-in, but that’s a massive stain on their reputation as far as I’m concerned)

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        My question is simple: Which of these security features are not enabled/present in Ubuntu that give Fedora an advantage?

        SELinux has a functional equivalent called Apparmor that is also enabled out of the box in most distros.

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          Selinux is more secure then app armor, but more difficult to use. Ubuntu is also pretty secure, I’m just not as familiar with it. I mentioned it for the privacy but, since it used to have some Amazon bloat crapped bundled and telemetry built in.

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        Nope. GP explicitly mentioned security experts that Fedora employs and other security stuff that Fedora apparently has an advantage on over other distros. I wonder if they knew in particular what these advantages are because that got me curious.

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          Read their comment again. The first paragraph is about privacy and Ubuntu is only mentioned at that point. Fedora’s default security is only compared to nix and arch.

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            I used Ubuntu as an example for argument’s sake not as a defence for Ubuntu’s privacy/security features.