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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is the Trinity Desktop Environment Secure? (www.trinitydesktop.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So, a while back I installed Xfce with Chicago95, but was disappointed. Xfce just doesn't vibe with me, and a strict emulation of Windows95 is not really what I wanted, I just wanted something that "felt" that classic.

So I was gonna give up and just use KDE, until I saw TDE. I think TDE is probably what I'm looking for but I'm concerned about using anything so minor because security.

It TDE secure (for personal use)?

Can a DE even be insecure, or are they all generally as secure as each-other as long as you follow the rules (trustworthy software, closed firewall, install patches fast, and disaster recovery plans)?

What vulnerabilities can a desktop environment even have (edit)?

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Roll up is when you scroll-up while hovering over the title bar and everything except the title-bar disappears. In the image monovergent provided the title bar is highlighted in red.

I use Linux Mint with Xfce. Gonna change to OpenSUSE once I can be bothered distro-hopping.

EDIT: Specifically it's the Font Settings that take forever to load, not all of the settings menu.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh yeh. The font menu is crap. I can’t argue with that.

It’s one of those mysterious annoying things that’s up there with the GTK file picker in some apps taking 10 seconds to load.

But I also don’t change fonts that often. Still, that has much room for improvement.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mine used to be bogged down by the half-a-million Noto fonts, which I alleviated by uninstalling fonts-noto-extra, leaving only fonts-noto-core and fonts-noto-mono.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 15 hours ago

Did this significantly speed up the font menu? I might have to try that!