What I want in PureOS

Software PureOS
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Nobody will agree on exactly the things you see fit to be the default for everybody. That’s why stuff is customizable.
Make your own distro, or have the very powerful organizations you work with make it, or forget about it.

  1. try KDE Plasma
  2. This is the standard. Where does it not work? Maybe Wine on Wayland or something similarly exotic?
  3. Not going to happen. Comodo is not free (as in freedom) software (Also it makes some dubious claims like “100% Secure Shopping” and “prevents all viruses and online threats”). Purism offers Purist VPN, why would they make somebody else’s VPN the default? PureOS has PureBrowser and there’s Brave with built-in Tor support, who decided that Epic is superior? Purism plans to standardize on Matrix instead of Signal.
  4. With Wayland as desktop backend (which Purism aims to use by default/exclusively), you basically have that (at least if you disable the screenshot API). Except if some software gains root access, which is always bad. But also if shady software only runs with user privileges, you are screwed, no matter if it’s able to log your keys and grab your screen. Bottom line: don’t run proprietary software if you are serious about privacy and security. IOW: Don’t run Windows binaries in Wine. If you have to, use a VM.
  5. Interesting idea, but at least partially outside the scope of Purism. Setup guides and security-best-practices for ordinary users would be great, but I guess they still have to grow a bit to have time for such things.
  6. Easy. Have a separate partition for /home/. Have an external, encrypted backup of it. Before traveling, completely overwrite /home/ with random data, then put some cat videos in the download folder. If forced to tell the disk encryption password, tell it. Use the Librem key. Retrieve your data via secure channels from some server. Overwrite again before traveling home. Did I say easy? Well, in theory it is. But very powerful non-profit organizations usually have security experts that will help you with that. They could also invest resources in developing tools that help to automate such stuff.
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