Graphene modifies AOSP for much more security.

E.g.

• you can disable USB data at a hardware level
• Receives Kernel updates even faster than Google’s phones
• uses a different memory allocator, hardened_malloc
• changes the way zygote launches apps, so ASLR actually works
• doesn’t allow apps to ptrace themselves
• disables JIT per-app
• disable network access per-app

I dont think e/OS is as security oriented, more privacy oriented

The only way they can do this is by removing most features, or simply not connecting to the internet.

Even “American” SoC suppliers have a majority of their programmers in China

The reason I don’t recommend it by default is that there is no updater across releases.

The official upgrade process is to modify apt sources files and run upgrade, then full-upgrade, etc.

That’s fine for me but it makes it hard to recommend to people who may not be as willing to deal with modifying system files and reading some upgrade notes

You can’t send group texts over SMS

I’d guess the group chat is stuck sending messages to RCS (basically Google Proprietary) rather than MMS

This is the same problem iPhone users have dealt with for a long time when switching to Android and their number is stuck in Apple’s iMessage system

I think mech@feddit.org is right, but one other piece I’ve heard is that “unmanaged” desktops make things like randsomware insurance harder

Although compliance is also a concern.

For us, on our Linux machines, they pay Canonical or RedHat for workstations 🤷‍♂️

Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM

Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos

It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me

In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space

Especially since it says 11 production lines…

11 lines = 57.8 million

57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?

Edit: Maybe the nearly 40% downtime is retooling for different models?

Honestly, I would have expected worse than that

Just a heads up, you should just need the group set up

That is crazy that you weren’t added to it by default, though.

I was also surprised - you used to be able to modify a user’s group membership through the System Settings GUI. That’s a huge missing piece that you can’t do that anymore

I dont know your specific network topology, but I’ve always been able to use openconnect rather than Cisco’s client

network-manager-openconnect for NM support

Support for higher levels of ARM SystemReady seem like they’re poorly supported in the Linux ecosystem right now.

ARM boards nearly always require a devicetree entry for that specific board.

This may not be entirely a Linux problem, but my understanding is that some of the x1 elite laptops we’ve seen DeviceTree entries added in the Linux kernel are using SystemReady ES or SystemReady SR on Windows

Ah. Open source would be better, but I don’t think AirPlay support is stopping anyone from using Linux.

I’m not sure about Sonos

PipeWire supports AirPlay…?

At least with PipeWire 1.4.9, I regularly cast audio to my wife’s Apple Homepod

The number of times I’ve been debugging something and a coworker messages “I asked ChatGPT and it said [obviously wrong thing]” makes me want to gouge my eyes out

Because they’re objectively better on a desktop.

Your compositor should control the window - if the poorly implemented client hangs, you can just click the server-side close button a couple times and get the “shall I force close this?” popup

The only reason for CSD is touch interfaces on small screens. In that case, you still need some other interface to handle misbehaving applications, but they tend to be harder to use, e.g. the removal of home/back buttons on Android

Edit: If you’re trying to improve on SSD, you could consider some model where the client can register some actions it would like to have displayed to the compositor, and the compositor can relay clicks back to the client. In this scheme, the compositor still owns the title bar, but the client can request special decorations

They’re using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can’t use.

It’s a different physical interface.

Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards… 🤷‍♂️

They’ve only been working on it for 11 years now…

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/2jbnry/gog_officially_confirm_their_galaxy_client_for/

Fractional scaling w/ HiDPI displays, especially when the monitors are different resolutions, works so much better in Wayland than X11