Desktop Linux Hardening

Re:Desktop Linux Hardening by akvadrako on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:34PM (#36300637)

But you can get alternatives which have the telemetry removed. Like VSCodium and some Firefox forks. And instead of every distro needing to do those patches themselves, they can share the effort.

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Re:Desktop Linux Hardening by Arnavion on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#36301482)

Maintaining a firefox fork is a much bigger job than putting `--with-unsigned-addon-scopes=app --allow-addon-sideload` in the package build script.

Distros already share effort implicitly because maintainers of distro X often look at what distro Y is doing for that package. Also users compare distros frequently and will tell the maintainer of distro X that the same thing works with distro Y.

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Re:Desktop Linux Hardening by rlpb on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:44PM (#36304490)

But a user has to know to look for these alternatives. Use a distro you trust and you don't have to.

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