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?

  • corship@feddit.de
    11·
    2 years ago

    You really should press Ctrl+alt+f3 on your lock screen and get your mind blown.

      • corship@feddit.de
        3·
        2 years ago

        I think you missed the point. Switch the tty to realize your de is irrelevant in regards to security, because you don’t even need one…

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          11·
          2 years ago

          Wait until you want to watch a video, look at a photo, play a game or view a PDF lol

          • musicmatze@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            You can do all these things on a framebuffer. Ok, maybe the game thing is a bit of a hassle, but the other stuff is totally doable.

          • corship@feddit.de
            1·
            2 years ago

            What the duck has this to do with anything.

            The entire point is that your DE has NO security features at all, those come ALL from the underlying system such as PAM for example, managing the authentication and such.

            These stupid strawmans “huhr dur watch a video”

            Besides that I’ll just answer the straw man argument anyway because it’s even stupid if you take it seriously YES YOU CAN ACTUALLY LAUNCH GUI (such as a game) DIRECTLY FROM TTY.

            And I quote

            LoL