Follow-up question: is the use case for Tails still relevant? The main premise is that public computers might be bugged, and so you can plug this in and be less worried about it. However, public computers aren’t really a thing anymore, and the ones that are left might have secure boot or other BIOS security that might prevent booting from USB.
Also, I am puzzled as to why they picked GNOME, which is a resource hogger. Don’t these public computers have little RAM? I’d assume that 4 GB is already generous.
If you don’t trust your own hardware or are worried about a session being compromised it also offers some protection - especially if you have a physical read-only switch on your media.
Hmm, no, you’re right. XFCE had it’s first release in 1997 vs. 1999 for GNOME. I guess I just didn’t hear about it until GNOME started having controversy.
neither was resource hogging sugar coated unconfigurable GNOME as we know today.
Yeah, that might be the real thing. Tails had it’s first release in 2009, and it’s possible they just haven’t moved over yet.
Follow-up question: is the use case for Tails still relevant? The main premise is that public computers might be bugged, and so you can plug this in and be less worried about it. However, public computers aren’t really a thing anymore, and the ones that are left might have secure boot or other BIOS security that might prevent booting from USB.
Also, I am puzzled as to why they picked GNOME, which is a resource hogger. Don’t these public computers have little RAM? I’d assume that 4 GB is already generous.
Was XFCE a thing when the project started?
If you don’t trust your own hardware or are worried about a session being compromised it also offers some protection - especially if you have a physical read-only switch on your media.
Thought XFCE has been a thing for a long time. Even if it wasn’t, neither was resource hogging sugar coated unconfigurable GNOME as we know today.
Hmm, no, you’re right. XFCE had it’s first release in 1997 vs. 1999 for GNOME. I guess I just didn’t hear about it until GNOME started having controversy.
Yeah, that might be the real thing. Tails had it’s first release in 2009, and it’s possible they just haven’t moved over yet.