Note, just realized Gnome has no Firewall integration in its settings panel at all, unlike KDE.

So for Gnome users, just install firewall-config GUI and you can customize which zones each network connection uses from there.

On KDE, you can customize zones as I described above, or use the GUI app.

October 01, 2025 - 04:09 UTC

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Ya know, I've been a GNOME guy forever (85% of reasons = lazy + habit). I keep hearing good things about KDE but I'm an old(ish) dog and this is a new(ish) trick. I'm going to have to look into this (used to gufw+ufw). Thanks.
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KDE is good for power users and people like me who are too used to the old taskbar and application menu to feel comfortable with modern Gnome.

Gnome is perfectly fine for those that like it though. They just might not focus on things others might find important, like Firewalld integration.
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For Linux Mint, after you've installed Firewalld, you can click on the Network taskbar icon, choose "Network Connections", and then it works similar to KDE. Firewall-config GUI is also still an option.
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