I can confirm that Bazzite works flawlessly on a Razer Blade 14 without any additional configuration. Just installed from ISO and it was perfect.

The draw is that you cannot screw them up. Non-power users are the ones who will get the most out of them!

I know that I’ll never get a call from my friend saying, “I ran this command I found on an Ubuntu forum, and now my system won’t boot…”

As a counterpoint, I installed Bazzite on a Blade 14 for a heavy gaming friend who was leaving Windows, and they have had no issues whatsoever.

I personally use Bluefun, and again, no issues at all. Incredibly good experiences on both.

I can’t imagine what you mean by needing more work to configure, they both worked out of the box with no configuration.

You can’t know with certainty on Signal that the client and the server are actually keeping your messages encrypted at rest, you have to trust them.

With Matrix, if you self host, you are the one in control.

It’s harder to create new content than to correct existing content.

Just remember that Cloudflare decrypts and re-encrypts all your data, so they can read absolutely everything that passes through those tunnels.

What features will depend on the close-source part, and which do not?

There are definitely some terminology issues here.

The SDK is not closed source, you can find the source here: https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk

It might not be GPL open-source, but it is not closed either.

Other than that, I agree with your points. I don’t agree with the kneejerk hysteria from many of the comments - it’s one of the worst things about FOSS is how quick people are to anger (I am not referring to you here).

But all of that still doesn’t explain what their goal of introducing the proprietary SDK is.

Let’s wait and see before we get out the pitchforks.

Well, then it would be nice to hear from them an explanation on why they decided to violate the GPLv3

Lucky for you, they provided that explanation:

1. This is a bug/mistake.
2. Our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
3. We will fix this.

That may or may not be the case, but the comment I replied to said they locked the thread with “no explanation”.

Gitlab has demonstrated its commitment to keep the core of their product, though limited in features, free and open source. As of now, BW’s clients cannot even be compiled without the proprietary SDK anymore.

None of that makes Bitwarden not open source. Not only that, they specifically state this is a bug which will be addressed.

I would go as far as to say that Bitwarden’s main competitive advantage and differentiation is that it’s open source. They would be insane to stop that.

That would be an issue if they were not open source. Them making their own SDK proprietary is not a pitchfork issue.

Open source !== Non-proprietary

I would go as far as to say that Bitwarden’s main competitive advantage and differentiation is that it’s open source. They would be insane to change that.

The explanation is the second-to-last comment before it got locked. 🤦

This hysteria is really stupid.

Any cloud is a secure backup on Linux if you use rclone crypt :)

It works with Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, and countless others to create an encrypted cloud storage, where the cloud provider can never view your file contents.

I do it that way for my kid as she prefers it, and the “normal” way for me, and it is identically easy.

I cannot understand the claim that it’s easier the seed end, it’s just not true.

It’s definitely cleaner doing it the normal way from the bunch end as you never get bits of banana on you if it’s a particularly squishy one.

Bunch end wins for me. Just as easy if not easier and no mess.

I’m not sure how it works with PIA, but on Proton I can export multiple configs, let’s say 6 different ones with a combination of countries and other options.

Then I add them all into KDE and I can switch between them at will.

It’s a slight extra cost of time at the start, but after that it’s smooth and easy.

Private Internet Access

Can’t you simply get the OpenVPN or Wireguard details from in PIA, and then put them into Gnome/KDE’s built-in VPN app?

Like this: https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/kb/articles/where-can-i-find-your-ovpn-files

Will be something similar for Wireguard.

Oh I agree with you. I am a daily crypto user and I have no use for this wallet. I was just offering some things it adds which might be useful.

Lightning is a big missed opportunity. Phoenix is the only wallet I know that has solved this in a user-friendly way.

(I did also mention that it only works between Proton accounts.)

The wallet doesn’t add anything directly useful.

It adds a couple of things which can be useful:

1. You have a single receive email, but it’s associated with a full HD wallet, so every receive will generate a brand new unused address for the sender. As the email is static, you could for example post it for donations and not have to worry about people being able to track anything you’ve received. Of course this only works with other Proton users which is kind of pointless, but perhaps it’s the start of some sort of interoperability standard?

2. They have support which you can contact, which while almost certainly isn’t important for you, for your aunty it might be useful.

Or Linux Drive…

who is maintaining custody of the Bitcoin

It’s self-custody.