Techlore Surveillance Report Our Favorite Linux Desktop Environments
Nov 3, 2023
Favorite Linux DEs, tackling CSAM, encrypted cloud sync, challenges of end-to-end encryption, technology for photo scanning, technology abuse, Cryptomator for local encryption
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Personal Desktop Environment Preferences
- Speaker 0 prefers GNOME for its clean look and mentions limited Linux experience mostly with distros called "cubes".
- He also notes XFCE's intuitive VPN-on-Wi-Fi feature and that Linux Experiments made a compelling case for KDE.
Power Versus Simplicity Tradeoff
- Speaker 1 uses GNOME and KDE most, finding KDE extremely powerful but also the most complicated to configure.
- He prefers GNOME for personal machines because it is keyboard-based and simpler for everyday use.
Don't Kill Encryption To Fight CSAM
- Avoid undermining global security by banning end-to-end encryption as a response to CSAM distribution.
- Services can remove publicly-shared encrypted links when the encryption key is part of the URL, as Mega has done for piracy.