Hello, for Opensuse you can choose between GNOME and KDE. As I understand it, while there is many Linux distros, GNOME and KDE are the two main variarions. Is one better than the other privacy and security wise ?

Neither are focusing on privacy. It’s just that being open source would help with the security and privacy aspects of the project.

I don’t believe that there are any major differences between the two with respect to privacy. Both are privacy respecting, neither undermine your privacy. With respect to Security (not privacy specifically) my guess is that Gnome gets many more ‘eyes on’ just due to being the default DE in so many …

I don’t think there’s really any privacy benefit in choosing one over the other. I have heard that GNOME has wanted to include (privacy respecting) telemetry for some time now but to my knowledge that hasn’t gone anywhere.

KDE has telemetry, but its opt in I believe and it asks you whether you want to enable it on first use

You couldn’t go wrong with either of these…

KDE lets you set Flatpak permissions inside the Settings program. GNOME doesn’t have that; you’d need to install Flatseal. That’s the only significant privacy difference I can think of from the top of my head.

In terms of privacy, there is absolutely no difference. It is mostly a matter of preference. KDE Plasma is a bit Windows-like, with a start menu, window list and tray icons, a full-featured file manager, and minimize/maximize buttons on the right. But it’s also very customizable and you can change …

Thank you for all your answers. I have tested GNOME and KDE, and basically agrees with @Regime6045 assement. What my question was supposed to mean is : "On which is it easiest to set strong security and privacy settings for things such as wifi, bluetooth, ports, device integrity etc… ? Unrelated, …

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Yes.
There are images of the opt-in telemetry prompt and setting in this post for those interested:

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