![]() ![]() This complaint is also fun considering the number of people who yell about banks doing things like refusing to run if nonstandard keyboards are installed. > If you can't trust your OS then you've lost already. ![]() What defenses does Signal have against that? And will Signal warn against unverified GBoard updates that haven't been vetted? The most likely proposed method was that the GBoard (google soft-keyboard) was "updated" with a poison update that uploaded everything typed. > Signal was used by Chinese dissidents and were whisked away by the CCP. There is no agreement on what constitutes the base "Linux Desktop" platform, and very little ABI back and forward compatibility. Unfortunately this seems to be the best that can be done with the Linux Desktop community's extremely fragmentary and complexity-worshiping nature. Nevermind half these apps are probably Electron based regardless of their crappy packaging We have apps from official repos, downloaded DEBS and/or RPMs, flatpak apps, appimages that dont' integrate into menus, snaps (if you're locked into Ubuntu), maybe a docker image or two. > it may have made a couple of devs lives easier, but the average linux desktop now is messier than a Windows XP SP1 desktop. They've solved the problem of requiring third party middlemen to include our package in a repo, using updated versions on older "unmaintained" distros, using old versions on the latest distro, using two different versions at once, and being able to store applications on different media. it seems to me we've just duplicated the problems of competing packaging standards across distros, except now they all take up more resources and disk space than before.
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