If you want a dedicated device, sure. Image it with OPNSense and it’ll basically just work.
You can also take any desktop you already have, fire up an OPNSense VM, pcie passthrough your WAN NIC + WiFi card, bridge to a separate LAN NIC, go through the setup, and there’s your router.
Best of both worlds – Debian + Nix home-manager. Debian gives you incredible stability and plenty of usage resources. Nix gives you anything too new for Debian and functionally confines the more experimental end of your config to user space.
(just (try (guix (bro))):))
Next level gaslighting. “Is the MIT license in the room with us right now?”
I paid for it for years but it’s just too limited. Inbox rules suck. Tags technically exist but are half baked.
Searching your tuta inbox is terrible. By default it sets the search window to a few days, and searching your entire inbox takes (not exaggerating) ~1000x as long as any other provider I’ve used. Where I expect a few seconds it takes tens of minutes to search a time window of ~1 month which for me might be ~1000 emails total.
You can easily get proton notifications without google using youhavemail
Here’s a quick how to from Learn Linux TV
Wait a minute. Are you wanting to get a different computer? Or boot Linux on your Mac?
The Mac themes on KDE are pretty great, and so is the customizability. KDE makes things very easy to tweak until you like it. GNOME does not.
Personally, I use NativeAlpha (PWA wrapper) and tweak the permissions until it just barely works for my needs.
My favorite tip is to set the PWA default address to instagram.com/?variant=following – which is JUST the accounts you follow with no recommended content / doom scrolling fuel.
It’s in the video too! With this level of coverage and functionality it seems like a reasonable goal IMO
Thanks for the share! Pretty encouraging to see so much progress. Alpha in 2026!
6 in one, half dozen in the other
+1 for both comments above.
Back up your current disk! If you do it properly you can always restore your current operating system if this experiment doesn’t pan out.
Fedora KDE is an excellent starter choice. The DE will feel relatively familiar coming from Windows and Fedora is very much a batteries included distro. Red Hat guides are excellent and very useful in that family.
Another one for Tuta, with addy.io as a proxy service. Nice integration with Bitwarden for making new accounts + it’s simple to make rules based on the to address for easy filtering.
Would there be any harm in using this in conjunction with something like Stirling to edit with one and read with the other?
You’re right, the server, cryptographic library, and all clients are open source.
That said, I have a few personal caveats.
Second this! I like the interface. Especially useful for euro banks where you can auto sync.
Nice work! Thanks for putting in this work and self promoting. I hope this continues to grow.
That’s fair. Once you understand some basics though it’s not too bad. There’s a UI just like any router you might already be used to. The most confusing part for someone who is new to this would probably be setting up the VM hardware plumbing, and understanding that a passthrough means that hardware is unavailable to the host.