Yeah, Linux is way easier now than when I started. On a new install it usually just works these days.
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I know you're right, and that I'm lazy. BUT, anytime I wanna install something I have to go googling like a newborn. Then have to rely on obscure forum posts to install some godforsaken dependency I don't understand, nor have any clue where it's all located.
At least that's my spoiled experience. I'll try to be better someday
It's a bit different way of thinking Linux vs Windows. If you're trying to install things outside of what's part of Ubuntu, that can be a problem. If you use the tools included in the distro usually it goes smooth. Sticking to the app store is generally easy, it has all the dependencies accounted for. Anything outside of that is where it gets tricky.
I will say even as someone who has used it for 2 decades I'm amazed at how much easier AI assistants make it. Even command line stuff becomes trivial.
I wanna thank you again for stooping down to my level and explaining. It really is helpful. Going in the old memory bank. Will dust off the Linux node soon and reconsider
It's worth it. In my mind Linux, Bitcoin, and Nostr go hand in hand. Freedom software.
What about graphene? 👀
Yus
Pixel phone with quality (official preferred charger) and installing Graphene is a few clicks.
Android actually uses the Linux kernel as it's base. And there is work towards being able to run full Linux desktops on your grapheneOS phone. Soonâ„¢
Node said people have issues with the camera. Others I’ve talked to gave up on graphene and went to back to stock.
Not quite true, they should have done more research. While the stock camera software isn't as good, it easy to install the Google one, there an easy options in the grapheneOS app store to enable Google tools. Literally the only feature my grapheneOS pixel lacks compared to my stock pixel is tap to pay, but I get improved security and privacy in return.
I never use tap to pay on my iPhone anyway lol but the Google camera is bad for privacy no?
GrapheneOS puts Google apps in a sandbox so they don't have access to most the information they do on stock Android. Combined with putting it on a seperate user, it severely cuts back on the amount of information it can access.
Privacy and security exist on a spectrum, nothing is absolute. GrapheneOS gives me 99% of the functions of my phone, while greatly enhancing privacy and security. If I were more paranoid I wouldn't enable the Google tools, and have less function, but maybe more privacy. Everything in life is figuring out what trade-offs you want to make to get what you want.
I heard about the sandbox thing but I don’t understand what that means. How is that different from users? Does it really matter if it’s the same IP?
I'd do some basic research about what sandboxing is, it's more an internal software thing. Think about how other apps on your iPhone can't access the keys in a Bitcoin wallet. Apps have separation, different users have separation. A sandbox is just another layer of separation.
It means that Google apps don't have access to the information from other apps on GrapheneOS, on a stock pixel they have total access. You can't track and leak what you don't have access to.
IP address are something different. That's what a VPN is for. But even if they did know my IP, there's far less data to leak. Your phone company (and the govt) has access to all that info anyways, including your location, and a bunch of other information just by you having a phone.
Security and privacy are a spectrum, not an absolute. With GrapheneOS you have more choices of what to share or not. On stock Android or iOS you have fewer choices.