NoID Privacy Workstation is a hardened Linux distribution based on Fedora Workstation.
It is designed for developers, administrators, creators, and users who want a daily-driver desktop with stronger privacy and security defaults.
The system layers hardening across the kernel, network stack, identity, firmware, storage, integrity checking, browser configuration, and desktop services. It keeps the Fedora Workstation experience intact while adding features such as LAN isolation, a provider-neutral VPN killswitch, SELinux enforcing mode, auditd, AIDE, USBGuard, LUKS2 encryption, Btrfs snapshots with Snapper rollback, and hardened Firefox defaults.
NoID Privacy Workstation also targets AI-assisted workflows. It ships with a hardened VSCodium setup, Claude Code integration, privacy-focused defaults, and documentation for fully local AI setups. A read-only NoID Privacy for Linux audit tool is included and can also be run as a standalone Bash script on other Linux distributions.
Key Features
- Hardened Fedora Workstation derivative for privacy and security-conscious users
- LAN isolation to reduce exposure on hostile or untrusted networks
- Provider-neutral VPN killswitch for WireGuard and OpenVPN-based services
- SELinux enforcing mode, auditd rules, AIDE integrity monitoring, and USBGuard
- LUKS2 full-disk encryption with Btrfs and Snapper rollback support
- Hardened Firefox configuration with uBlock Origin and privacy-focused defaults
- Zero telemetry design with disabled phone-home and background reporting channels
- AI-agent-ready workspace with hardened VSCodium and opt-in Claude Code integration
- Includes a read-only Linux privacy and hardening audit tool written in Bash
- Designed for x86_64 systems with UEFI, Secure Boot support, and TPM 2.0
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | RPM |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | noid-privacy.com/linux.html |
| Developer: | NoID Privacy |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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