People should avoid Wayland environments which use wlroots as the compositor

PrivSec has an unfortunate habit of presenting their criticisms as factual instead of a matter of opinion.

I’m happy with the improvements made in Linux desktop environment security wrt screenshot privileges - #3 by redoomed1 which cover GNOME’s design without discouraging the use of sway or others.

The reality is that the way this is currently handled in most DEs is no different than how it’s handled in mainstream operating systems like Windows, nor how it’s always been handled in Linux, where I have not heard of any real-world attacks where this has been exploited. Thus I see no reason to essentially start fearmongering about wlroots/sway/kde.

I’m okay to mark this proposal as rejected unless anyone has something else to add @team

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