To what capacity is it beneficial to use the command console for everything? if I learned bitcoind, would I be lowering the surface attack enough that it is worth the hassle of not using a GUI?
I see a lot of advanced users using bitcoind saying that using the GUI has too many risks for them. They usually use CentOS, Arch, Gentoo or other complicated Linux distro so they are advanced programmers. Is it worth getting up to that level, or is it safe to stay with the regular GUI usage for usual hodling and transaction making?
If security is your concern, you might want to check out TailsOS.
Very nice Linux which supports electrum by default, is a live boot system, so malware shouldn't be persistent if it gets on your system. Your electrum file, which is hopefully encrypted, will be in a encrypted partition provided by Tails for persistent data.
If security is not your primary concern, but you just like geeky stuff and technology, I think it´s not a bad idea to look into it.
Yeah I used Tails in the past a couple of times, only because I heard it was the best thing to create a paperwallet, when I was still testing out the idea of paperwallets before I discarded it.
I don't really like Electrum for either cold storage of online transactions. Im trying to learn how to set up Core as a node online to broadcast transactions and in another computer set another Core as a cold storage wallet to sign transactions. If I can manage to do this efficiently I will use this setup, if not I guess I will need to use Armory for the cold storage.
I will not use Tails tho, just any regular Linux distro will do (Xubuntu is pretty cool, or maybe Lubuntu if my old laptop is too slow to deal with it).
