back when I used ubuntu derivatives I used privoxy and edited the config file to route all my traffic through tor.
I just did the same on debian 12.6 and wonder if there’s a better alternative.
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Someone else mentioned Qubes, but that is also a rather advanced distro for journalists and other users with a high threat model.
If you want to be able to use your computer as normal, but have a session with maximum privacy and route through Tor, Whonix is your best bet.
If you want something that you cannot possibly mess up, even at the cost of less functionality on your computer, TAILS is your best bet.
You point your main active network interface gateway to a tor gateway or proxy.
Have you seen Carburetor ?
how does carburetor work? Do I simply activate it and that means all my traffic goes through tor? just like that? even if I open a terminal and sudo apt update, flatpak or yt-dlp something?
#Whonix is what you need, unless you find this solution too heavy
Install tor (from the official repo) then set up a proxy for SOCKS5 localhost port 9050
You may want to look into Qubes, it can natively route an entire OS through Tor. Note that routing all your traffic may hurt your anonymity. For example, there what if an app on your machine reaches out to somewhere and reports the serial number of a piece of hardware and it does it through your “anonymous” Tor connection? Virtualizing that hardware can help avoid that. Think through your threat model.
If you can, set this up on your router and then specify which devices should route through.
You may also want to use pihole for ad blogging and as your DNS server. and in pihole use your VPN server’s DNS such that you don’t have DNS leak.
And if the VPN is down, your computer won’t work until it comes back up.
Helpful if you run the network at your house
