the only thing I'll say is the piece about "no viruses" would kinda go away if desktop Linux picked up at all. the security on a default Linux system is worse than macos and windows with substantial hardening efforts needed. the only reason viruses and other malware isn't common on Linux as is is because of the tiny user base.
with all this said, if enterprise use got more common, security would quickly become an important aspect.
telemetry as a whole isn't bad. it depends what they are collecting. companies should provide a log of the (raw) telemetry data they've collected from you. if they're not comfortable sharing it it's probably too invasive.
that's not really the point considering this didn't occur in a vacuum. this one event can come to just be a grift and what I said will still be true.
pronouns are a part of the English, and many other, languages.
it's a mesh network built on wireguard. it's not just a direct connection to another PC on your network. you can select exit node devices on the fly and control acl's and access based on groups in their admin panel.
and yes, if you want a properly secured vpn setup without the necessary background knowledge, it's pretty difficult. there is no opening ports on your router, which is especially useful for people on cgnat.
I'm curious what would even be "snuck into it" ?
it's just a desktop environment. install it on whatever distro you're using.
nixos is a personal love of mine.
check Nix instead.
you only need one totp app.... people baffle me.
those were some bullshit bullet points lmao
aosp and android aren't necessarily one in the same.
congrats. you've got the worst recommendation yet lmao
users shouldn't have to care about security. it should be the baseline.
I've had some wild issues that I can't even begin to explain with btrfs. I landed on using xfs for / partition and btrfs on /home
bro?
windows sandbox is... getting there, macos is decent but iirc the app dev can choose to not use it. all Linux options require user intervention to ensure it's set up properly. ChromeOS' sandboxing technique is inherited from Android and is the strongest/strictest of any desktop operating system.
out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I've never been able to find a useful function of it beyond a niche party trick
hardly
third party clients are against Discord's ToS. with that out of the way, looks really cool and I'll give it a try!
this is just my opinion but if you aren't after the sandboxing benefits then don't bother with them. if you want to avoid dependency hell go with nix, if you are worried about storage space use your standard package manager, and if you want higher security without the knowledge/effort to manually do it, go with flatpak or snaps (although many flatpaks need to be further hardened via Flatseal as the dev gets to configure the sandboxing. I'm unsure how this operates under snap as I refuse to use it.)
ironically that's literally what x11 is made for.
termux targets an extremely out of date sdk and is therefore quite insecure.
this is bait
my existence is not, nor should be, a political issue. besides, technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. why do you think I'm on Lemmy instead of Reddit? politics. same with masto and Twitter.
and asking to be treated with respect in order to avoid mental issues is not selfish, you can think about more than yourself for once.
please do not just install random shit on other people's devices wth
this was a whole bunch of rambling and complaining without amounting to much. what's actually got you upset about increasing the security model?
lol it's right there. 9/16gb
any form of security in the display server would be nice. X is incredibly insecure with no trivial means of locking it down.
you're ignoring the very large elephant in the room known as "maintenance". r&d is only the first hurdle.
ironically this is what x11 was originally built for.
I've been working on one for a minute but the best solution I've come up with is searching every package manager when search is invoked but otherwise requiring the package manager to be declared via pkgman.package for installs/removes etc.
you're definitely over thinking a simple personal preference
people are even dumber than I realized holy shit. I knew people weren't willing to go far for security measures but this is actually much worse than I would have guessed.
laziness, ignorance, or privilege? I'm unsure which of the three causes this. I find it hard to believe it's ignorance because online scams and hacks are very well known and I've always hated "laziness" as a concept.
fedora's Nvidia support is leagues ahead of anything debian based in my experience. that's not to mention debians insanely out-dated package repo.
just change it yourself
so turn off notifications??
I've had the best experience using xfce.
why don't you just install gnome...?
treating people respectfully is not getting offended. please touch some grass and open your eyes.