Firewall for Bazzite

Good day, I have being enjoying Bazzite for 5 months now. It made me settle after trying several distros. I am wondering if it is possible to add a built-in firewall like Safing Portmaster. I tried to install it via rpm-ostree but never worked out, it says something about read-only filesystem. I do not want to mess with the distro too much.

It seems that someone find out how to install it on immutable distros with a script, still would like to read opinions from Bazzite devs.

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There is also OpenSnitch. I don’t recall it installing to /opt so it should be safe.

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+1 for OpenSnitch, I installed the local .rpm from their Github via rpm-ostree and it seems to be working fine so far.

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Just wanted to thank you for referencing that script. It worked like a charm on Bazzite, but I followed someone else’s instructions in that thread to remove the “–show-progress” portion of the wget lines. Boom, went right through and worked fully right after rebooting.

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In that case, since Safing Portmaster is a notable Linux content creator sponsor and thus would be quite known by a subsection of Linux user, would it be worth it to add the customized script into ujust/yafti?

Don’t know who to tag here about ujust & yafti (or Bazzite Portal), though.

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This seems like it would be a great idea for Bazzite!