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new to Lemmy and still figuring things out. didn't see any ask Linux type communities, so I have a question, seeking guidance (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello all, running Debian 12 right now and really liking this thing. I never ran straight Debian before, always mint or Ubuntu. But anyway....

I'm wondering if you guys could recommend some troubleshooting or scanning tools that help you find errors, misconfiguration, basically any thing that could be wrong with your system. I'd much prefer GUI tools as CLI tools can be a bit confusing.

So my only thoughts are auditing type apps. Don't those comb through your system for issues? I've tried Lynis and it seemed pretty cool, need to explore further. Of course you got your vulnerability scanners which I plan to use. You've got your rootkit scanners and clamv for malware. I just got netdata up and running last night. Now that is one confusing ass app lol so many options and i dont really kniw what im looking at lol. But I'm more interested in the system itself. I know I have some issues within my system. Htop only tells you so much and it never answers my problems when my computer random freezes or It starts overworking and heating, yet no high CPU or memory usage showing on htop.

I know I have networking issues with my VPN and DNS and other stuff. I just lack the knowledge to know where to look and what to fix, so trying to finder more user friendly, maybe more proactive tools I can use to help me discover things within the system that need attention. Overall I just want a healthy, dependable, safe, secure Linux system and I always endupFrankensteining my shit just trying different crap and everything eventually falls apart lol so help with some reomendations please, folks!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Opensuse has GUI frontend that controls almost all the system settings called YaST, why dont you give it a try

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you mean give yast a try or OpenSUSE?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! I tried tumbleweed before but it seemed quite fragile or maybe over secure? Idk if I'm explaining it correctly, but it seemed like everything I tried to do on the OS ended up breaking the system so I has to keep starting over and try reconfiguring things. Probably just learning curve issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, too overly specific or weird on some stuff, like for example on installing packages via terminal, I just went with suggesting it because I haven't fully red and understood your query, my bad :)

As for auditing tools, I can't think of any because there is a lot of ways how to check logs and it is messy ngl. If I'll be honest with you how I kinda survived linux is by automating backup of important files through nas and if I f*cked up my system, instead of fiddling the logs to find what went wrong, I'll just nuke it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not a bad approach actually lol. I've pretty much done the same with virtually no backup. I never have much to save on my computers.