Do I need a firewall for my fedora 38?

I’m new to Linux, previously been on Windows where I used defender + Windows firewall. Now I’m on fedora which also have its firewall called firewalld. Are those sufficient, or do I need any other solutions for my security?

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just FYI, Fedora does come with Firewalld enabled by default; however, the Workstation spin also has all non-privileged ports exposed by default. This really shouldn’t be a problem as long as your router has a firewall, your network isn’t already compromised, and you don’t plan to put the computer on the internet as a server; however, as part of my kickstart script, I close all ports just to be safe and only expose the ones I need for certain services.