In other threads, it has been vehemently and repeatedly stated that the assumption that mainline Linux distros are worse than apple is in fact false
Why? This makes no sense at all.
If that was the case, PG would recommend apple. They don’t. They never have. They recommend spins of fedora, SUSE, Qubes, and at other times have recommended ubuntu and even Debian.
Plus, apple has repeatedly exaggerated their privacy claims; remember the scanner they wanted to put on everyone’s phone earlier this year?
Why on earth would apple be preferable to mainline Linux?
First, security at the expense of privacy is the opposite of what PG is about. Just do a locked down windows TPM computer in that case.
Second, again, how? Some Linux distros have things like secure boot, file hashing, kernal hardening…
Claiming Apple, of all companies, and a proprietary system, is more in line with privacy than Linux is a really hard sell. If anything, this just sounds like an argument to delist 1Password, rather than open the floodgates to other services
Could we get a member of the PG team to chime in on this? @jonah?
PG doesn’t currently recommend secureblue on the site, doesn’t mean that it’s either good or bad. The recommendation means that you should take a closer look to it, not use it as an authorative source.
Fedora is a great starting workstation, and it inherently doesn’t spy on you. So, nice start to privacy and Linux. For better security, yeah SecureBlue is better… But for most, this won’t give a practical upgrade. At the very least, you should be experienced with Fedora/Linux to really get the most out of SecureBlue, so personally I would learn workstation first if you are new to Linux
I wouldn’t argue with a fedora dev. He is correct.
My only point was that Fedora workstation is a large improvement from windows, and can help newcomers learn the ropes with Linux. Throwing them into more advanced distributions where they get frustrated with permissions etc can turn them off entirely
Secure boot is very limited on Linux and probably doesn’t protect against what you think it does. What do you mean by file hashing and what does this have to do with security? Every OS can calculate hashes of files.