New eOS variants #490
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Hey thanks for your suggestions. In the future I recommend opening separate discussion posts and individual feature requests where possible. It's very hard to track discussions that cover a lot of different topics and they often duplicate and overlap other discussions, feature requests, etc. Can you be more specific about what you mean by "bloatware"? What things do you think we're shipping right now that are unnecessarily and should be removed? Can you elaborate on what a "lightweight" kernel is or provide examples of distributions shipping what you would consider to be a "lightweight" kernel? Could you elaborate on what you mean regarding drivers? I definitely would never recommend anyone use Brave browser. It has a super sketchy history rooted in homophobia and cryptocurrency scams. GNOME Web is definitely the more privacy-respecting choice in my opinion. Can you elaborate on why you think Thunderbird is more privacy respecting than elementary Mail? There's an open feature request for encrypted mail support that you can follow here: elementary/mail#82 We already ship full disk encryption with LUKS which is the standard for Linux-based operating systems. We also already ship support for OpenVPN and WireGuard out of the box We're not able to ship 3rd party applications by default, but there is a Bitwarden web app wrapper available from Flathub. There is a built-in system password manager, but perhaps we need a graphical way to manage those passwords. It would be worth opening a specific feature request about a password manager, probably here: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-security-privacy/issues There's an open feature request for "shred" here: elementary/files#1048 There's an open feature requests here for backup: elementary/os#266 I definitely recommend searching for or creating other individual feature requests since this discussion post won't be able to be easily searched or tracked |
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A good option to eOS 8 would have 2 more variants together the current one.
Mini:
-- Less bloatwares (user choose what he/she want during the system installation process)
-- Lightweight kernel and drivers
Privacy:
-- Change default web browser: Gnome Browser -> Brave
-- Change default e-mail client: Mail -> Thunderbird
-- Add comm encryption: GnuPG
-- Add disk encryption: VeraCrypt
-- Add VPN client: OpenVPN and WireGuard
-- Add password manager: Bitwarden or KeePassXC
-- Add permanently deletion: File Shredder
-- Add end-to-end encrypted file-sharing: OnionShare
-- Add 2FA tool: Authenticator
-- Add snapshot tool: Timeshift
-- Add anon connections: Tor
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