Your answer to “how to harden SSH?” is “harden SSH”?

I know your two other points gave concrete suggestions, but it’s pretty funny you suggested to “harden sshd” when that is what OP is asking how to do.

Meanwhile in reality installing Nvidia drivers is literally just a checkbox in a Drivers menu in system settings. Unless you are using Arch or something.

Why? Does it offer a better experience than self-hosting Ente?

I only used Ente so I’m genuinely asking. When I open the Immich website, I am met with a big warning:

Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

Which doesn’t look to me like something I’d want to rely on, compared to Ente which is stable and feature complete.

I use Nvidia on Linux for over a decade now, never had a problem. Using the official closed source drivers. I don’t know if AMD is better because I never tried it myself, but in my experience Nvidia is working as well as on Windows.

This is on desktop, I don’t know about laptops. My experience is also limited to gaming, maybe it’s bad for CUDA or something.

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’m triple booting Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux for a few years now with GRUB, and Windows never broke it.

Yeah self-hosting is not hard if you are technical, but the average person won’t even entertain the idea.

I haven’t tried Immich, I’m currently happy with Ente, and I’m planning to move to Immich (and see how it compares) once it’s declared stable by the developers.

I suggest Ente Photos instead of Immich, if self-hosting is not something for you. It’s also more feature complete, as Immich is still actively being built and bugs are expected.

Yeah, I was thinking of a new repo with no existing code.

In your case you’d want to uncheck the creation of a readme so the hosted repo is empty and can be pushed to without having to overwrite (force) anything.

You don’t if you just clone the repo you created.

It works nicely, and I use it for VR games, but it doesn’t really solve the anti-cheat problem, because these anti-cheats tends to not allow VMs anyway.

Never had an issue with Nvidia. But then I’m using an Ubuntu distro because I just want my computer to work and I don’t care about bleeding edge / rolling distros.

And I will move to Wayland in a few years when all the issues are sorted out, which I suspect is part of people’s problems.

Nothing about the app is secret, Google openly advertises it

It’s for E2E encryption in chat apps.

AMD is ideal but Nvidia is fine

Not in all cases. I need GPU passthrough to play VR games in a VM. Only Nvidia cards work for that.

OP already has a Nvidia card and isn’t planning on buying anything. Yes Nvidia is a horrible company, but that doesn’t answer OP’s question. What answers OP’s questions is: Yes, go ahead and try Linux, your Nvidia card is going to work just fine.

OP isn’t asking what card to buy. He already has a Nvidia card and is asking if it’s going to work on Linux.

One could think so, but no cybersecurity experts share such opinion to my knowledge.

But your words confuse me. Either it’s not true at all or it happens.

The idea is pretty simple, so it would be surprising if it wasn’t happening at all. But there is a huge difference between “there probably exist some examples that do that” and a sweeping statement about all of them in general.

Why suspicious? I have genuinely never read a news story about a virus sending different versions of itself to different OSs. I’m sure it happens, but it doesn’t seem common at all, and you are claiming it very matter-of-factly so I am interested to know more.

Do you have any data to back up that claim? I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.