Topic: Linux distro as a secondary OS for PC wallets. Yay or Nay?(Security wise) (Read 105 times)

I believe Windows is the best OC, am I right?

In my experience dual booting is no go. People doing that often neglect the linux side and end deleting it. You say its like a "cold" wallet, but not really, because the hard drive might crash (a true cold wallet is a piece of paper with the seed words written manually, or an unplugged device) and if you are going to reboot, you might as well use a live iso without the need to install anything.

Of course going full Linux is always recommended, then you have to think what is it that is tying you to windows. Most tasks can be performed from Linux and a few exceptions can be handled either with wine or virtual machines.

In my experience the easiest and most productive path is to have BOTH on separate computers. People often keep an older computer after upgrading to the "latest" model. Install Linux in that older computer and start playing with it without worries.

Windows is way better that Linux as an OS for average people.

The problem is that Windows is set up for complex operations as well as simple, so that everyone can use the same Windows. This means that Microsoft has to guess what everybody will want, which controls are important enough to maintain for average users, how to sell programs for Windows, how to track people on the Net without being invasive, and who knows what else.

I find that Windows boots up much faster than Linux. However, the Windows boot is only so that I can get to work right away. Many background operations start in Windows much slower than they look.

Not so Linux. Linus starts slow, and operates only after the whole thing has been booted. It is way less complex than Windows.

The point is that since Windows is way more complex, the complexity itself is something that hackers have to get through to hack Windows. But, there are way more places in Windows to hack, so the protections have to be greater if Windows wants to remain competitive.

What this all means is, work with your private stuff offline, and only connect after you have transacted your bitcoins.

Real safety would be to have a couple of computers, boot off a flash drive without an OS on the computer at all, wipe the hard drive after every connectivity was done, use Veracrypt or something similar, keep two wallets - one with a small amount for everyday use - the other with the majority of coin in them.

You can search for all kinds of ways to enhance your protection with either Linux or Windows. Be creative by combining several of the methods that you find.

One of the main drawbacks of MAC OS is booting errors that are very frequent for most of the users. They definitely need actual suggestions recommended by error connecting to apple id server that will help them to recover their issues easily.

Hiya,

Windows 10 is my primary os for a few games and stuff, but I feel like Linux should be a little bit more secure to work with crypto wallets. I'm debating myself if I should make a full switch to Linux and access the rest of my Windows 10 stuff through Virtual Machine like KVM and QEMU or keep Linux as my secondary os primarily for wallets. I'm not that advanced in IT space, but if I move all of my sensitive data to Linux and reboot my PC to game and mine on Windows 10, my secondary os should work as a cold wallet technically, right? I prefer to leave my PC online 24/7 for games and mining, and I'm getting extremely anxious to have my sensitive information on a machine that is always connected to the internet. So I'm just trying to come up with a convenient solution.

I appreciate any and all opinions on the matter!