I use KDE. Some use GNOME. Most other options are probably to be left out as X11 is unsafe.

Cosmic is not nearly finished, but will probably be a bit safer, as its in rust, even though not tested.

Then there are window managers like Sway, Hyprland, waymonad, wayfire, etc.

RaspberryPi also has their own Wayland Desktop.

Is every Wayland Desktop / WM equally safe, what are other variables here like language, features, control over permissions, etc?

    • mintycactus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean you should trust Ublue guys to install their image. Even if you trust, what exactly the difference? It I understand correctly they just change UI the way they see it cool, but I can do it myself, how I need.

      • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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        8 months ago

        No that is bluefin, their special distro.

        Ublue is like rpmfusion but for image-based. Its the addition to fedora, with packages they can’t ship. They replace all the libav* with complete ffmpeg which is pretty great as its a great tool and Firefox works ootb.

        For example they have -nvidia images for every image, which is the best way to use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers as you can roll back and a broken update simply wont ship to you.

        They also have modded kernel images for Razer, Surface and a special Framework image.

        Another cool project basing off their “starting point” toolkit to create custom images, is secureblue, a security-optimized Version including

        • hardened kernel and hardened_malloc
        • updated Chromium, maybe soon Brave
        • soon a hardened Chromium (currently as COPR “vanadium”) like GrapheneOS
        • hardened services, firewall
        • removed unused kernel modules

        It is very security focused though, so no Firefox, no Flatpak as its currently broken, Podman (distrobox, toolbox) is currently not working and its unclear if that is actually necessary, …

        Bluefin is their fancy distro with lots of Tools, a custom Desktop, integrated Developer packages and more.

        • mintycactus@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Got it, some preconfigurations, which could be usefull or not. Like for some software to work properly I also layered ffmpeg, which required override remove lbav packages.

          • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
            1·
            8 months ago

            For firefox AND video thumbnails and preview to work you can just add libavcodec-freeworld. But full ffmpeg is so much better.