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Probably over 90% of what I use my personal laptop for is browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and writing notes. In a general purpose OS, I v
by tholdem 2y ago
Probably over 90% of what I use my personal laptop for is browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and writing notes. In a general purpose OS, I value security above all else. Privacy is a close second, and of course stability, ease of use, resource lightness, and application support are also important factors.
I haven't found a desktop operating system that ticks most of the boxes, especially security and privacy. The only OS that ticks all the boxes is GrapheneOS, but it's not really a desktop OS. That's why I'm so excited about these updates, and why I wish there was either a good keyboard/trackpad case for the Google Pixel Tablet running GrapheneOS, or someone would make a laptop that had the necessary requirements to support GrapheneOS.
I code on my work laptop, and if I really wanted to, I could probably SSH or VNC into a Linux box to code on GrapheneOS. There is also pKVM, which will probably make it easy to run Linux VMs on GrapheneOS at some point in the future.
- GiorgioG 2y ago> I haven't found a desktop operating system that ticks most of the boxes, especially security and privacy...That's why I'm so excited about these updates Android and privacy are not two things that go together.
- nixosbestos 2y agoGo on! Substantiate that. From a platform level. Please, I'm very curious.
- nixosbestos 2y agoIf I had my way every person that downvotes this kind of comment without replying would just be banned. There's no replies becuase it's utter cargoculted ignorant bullshit.
- GiorgioG 2y agoThe vast majority of Android devices run Google Services. The End.
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- tholdem 2y agoThe vast majority of Linux desktops run ChromeOS. So you think Linux and privacy don't go together?
- hulitu 2y ago> Linux desktops run ChromeOS. Linux is a kernel. ChromeOS is a dumbeb down OS. Calling it a desktop is like calling MS Windows secure.
- tholdem 2y agoI am not talking about Google's Android. I am talking about GrapheneOS and in Google's blog post they mention that this is coming to AOSP.
- thebruce87m 2y agoChange my view: open source operating systems are bad in practice since good actors rarely audit them but bad actors not only have the usual exploits but also have the keys to the castle. Edit: guess we’re not having a fruitful discussion about this then. Shame.
- reaperducer 2y agoEdit: guess we’re not having a fruitful discussion about this then. Shame. When you started with the low-grade trope "Change my view" you already indicated you weren't interested in a discussion, just arguing for the sake of arguing on the internet.
- thebruce87m 2y agoI actually wasn’t, I was looking for other opinions. I think my view holds merit, but clearly smarter people than me think differently and I wanted to hear their angle. Thanks for explaining though, I was genuinely confused at the downvotes. Maybe that meme doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
- freedomben 2y agoI think you've been gotten by the Reddit-ification of everything. Essentially, many people assume sinister motives on everyone else's part. If you're saying/asking something like you did, it must be because you have an agenda. Fortunately with a bit of time it will even out and probably go positive. It's the early voters on comments that are the most negative and quick to judgment.
- JoshTriplett 2y ago> Maybe that meme doesn’t mean what I thought it did. It doesn't. The general implication of that meme is not that someone actually wants to seriously consider alternative views; the implication is "I want to assert my position, which I think is unassailable, using the veneer of an argument".
- tholdem 2y ago