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As usual, the answer to 'why not Linux' is market share. Linux has numerous ways to sandbox applications. What it doesn't have is an advertising campaign promot
by fezfight 4y ago
As usual, the answer to 'why not Linux' is market share. Linux has numerous ways to sandbox applications. What it doesn't have is an advertising campaign promoting it on the desktop/phones. So it has a small number of users in those areas. Which means companies that dont care about freedom won't support it. And thus: banking programs dont run on the pinephone yet.
You can, of course, access your bank from a browser.
- dane-pgp 4y ago> You can, of course, access your bank from a browser. For now. Do you think the W3C would resist if banks tried to standardise a way for sites to determine if you are running with Secure Boot enabled? This would be part of a system to prevent browsers from spoofing their user agent string / version number. They ignored the protests of those opposed to DRM, and I can't imagine there being as much objection to banks trying to protect users from browser vulnerabilities and kernel-level keyloggers. Of course some Free Software advocates would again "cry wolf", predicting that banks would start to block requests from "unapproved" OSes, but those claims would be dismissed as scaremongering, right up until it started happening (and the wolf started eating their sheep).
- fezfight 4y agoI even think MBNA recently started blocking Firefox. It's a dark time for us all.