Firewalld vs GUFW

[gh4snow]

I started /w GUFW, but have since added Firewalld.
When I boot Mint, Firewalld appears to be active & GUFW is OFF.
I suspect Firewalld is the better tool, as it shows me what services are enabled,
where as GUFW does not.
It also allows me to turn off Samba, where as GUFW does not.
What services GUFW enables appears to be unknown.
Since what GUFW does is a mystery, I favor un-installing GUFW
and using Firewalld as my standard firewall for Linux Mint PC's.
Please advise if you have had issues /w either tool.

[MintBean]

GUFW is solid. As far as I know, it just blocks ports using IPtables and doesn't do anything with services.

[ajgreeny]

GUFW is solid. As far as I know, it just blocks ports using IPtables and doesn't do anything with services.

And don't forget that GUFW is just a tool to make changes to the iptables firewall itself; once you have made changes to the settings as you want them there is no need for GUFW to be running every time you boot the computer.

The service that actually acts as the firewall, iptables, will be running just as you left it last time.

[altair4]

firewalld has two things going against it:

** it has a "d" at the end of it's name and that rhymes with systemd.

** It comes from Red Hat.