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What makes a distro security-oriented? Debian has thousands of contributors and a dedicated security team.



Sandboxing is the big one (think Qubes, although it is not exactly a Linux distro), as well as good security practices for the distro maintainers, good defaults for kernel configuration, timely updates, some kinda MAC.

Manjaro has little of this as a default out of the box. They are mostly able to claim that they are privacy oriented because any OS that isn't borderline spyware like Windows is privacy oriented in comparison.


> Sandboxing is the big one

There are various sandboxing tools but they are developed upstream, not by distros.

> as well as good security practices for the distro maintainers

Some large distributions do this, but it takes a lot of work. How many contributors does Manjaro have?




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