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Apart from that I am looking for a solution to a personal issue (see my other comment), I posted this because I was thinking this could be a great way to support other new Linux users and friends.

  • allywilson@lemmy.ml
    321·
    13 hours ago

    There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

    • They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
    • They didn’t fully open source all components I think.
    • There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it’s entirely Chinese devs.
    • Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I also avoided it for some of these reasons, but in the end it was just the setup that got messy. I ended up using Sunshine/Moonlight for an overall nicer experience. I can use it to stream games if I’ve got a good connection, or toss it in low bandwidth mode for remote admin work. I run it behind Tailscale to access it from anywhere, it supports Wayland, it’s all fully open source, and I’m very happy with the setup.

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
      41·
      7 hours ago

      Yep, as for the last point: the problem was not so much the devs but data going through a Chinese server

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
      191·
      12 hours ago
      • There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it’s entirely Chinese devs.

      Ha, I am thinking since a while that for preventing one’s internet access being hacked by a foreign power, it’s probably best to chain an American-made router with a Chinese one so that they can firewall each other 😉

      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
        14·
        9 hours ago

        On a more serious note… yes, nation-state attacks on infrastructure like xz-utils do exist, and as Stuxnet has shown, they are also being used against high-profile targets like Iranian nuclear faculities..

        Such attacks against infrastructure are to be taken serious. But the xz-utils case and Stuxnet also have shown a few things:

        • Such attacks are incredibly time-consuming and expensive to mount.
        • Once sn attacker hits such a target, they have blown their powder - they can’t continue to use it.
        • The xz-utils case shows that open source’s many-eyed principle works astoundingly well.
        • xz-utils also confirms that in open source software, you can close a detected backdoor within hours - even if the maintainer of the software does not want that, since you can fork it in seconds. (And using Rust only makes this easier).

        So, this topic of foreign state-actor backdoors is less a thing for individuals to worry about. (I agree that lawmakers of democratic states should absolutely worry about this, here a good article be Bert Hubert on the topic.)

        However what is actually dangerous is the erosion of privacy and the rising amount of mandated surveillance. But if one is worried about that, one should not use closed-source software in the first place.