Thanks, I use KDE on X already (thank you nvidia) and find gnome's design absolutely asinine, so I'll try to fiddle around with the compositor settings.
nottheengineer
joined 1 year ago
Great, I play a lot on it and the only game I had to use windows for so far was titanfall 2 because it kept stuttering on linux and troubleshooting stutter is hard.
Classic microsoft move.
Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.
I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.
Ripped right from wikipedia: "A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product [...]."
Given you can't be arsed to google that on your own, I don't see s point in arguing.
Downloading and running binaries isn't anything to worry about. Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.
Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit. The security measures make sure that this code can't just do anything, just like on android.
Tiktok is indeed more malicious than any other app I can think of, but it isn't a backdoor.
US tech is backdoored just as hard as chinese stuff. None of the companies involved need to know when and for what the government uses backdoors, so they generally don't.
Pen support on linux is amazing. On the T935 it worked without any setup and was much better than on windows in terms of input lag and turning the touchscreen off/on properly.
I used Xournal++ and while the UI is a bit small on a 13" 1080p screen, it worked perfectly.
Now I remember another thing you should probably look out for: Don't get anything with a higher resolution than 1080p. Fractional scaling on linux is basically not a thing, so the resolution determines the size of any UI.
German here and it's been a while.
My parents came back from a vacation in austria recently and told me about what they heard on the radio: The austrian government did two separate things that actually benefit citizens in one day.
They didn't remember something like this happening in germany in the last 20 or so years and neither do I.
I put a similar amount of money into a used fujitsu T935 a few years ago for the same reason.
It was great for this, so I'd recommend looking into used 2in1 laptops. With linux and TLP you can easily get enough battery life out of pretty much anything.
Window manager? I use tmux directly on the tty, that way there's much less that can break.
~~The package name is correct~~, but signal was never on F-droid.
Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?
Edit: Package name isn't correct, so that's almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.