On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:04:36 +0000
dep via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
said E. Liddell via tde-users:
| On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 07:57:39 +0000
|
| dep via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
| > But I'm unclear as to the cross compatibility of the architectures.
| > There are a few concerns I have, the two main ones being the Proton
| > applications and TDE.
|
| Proton will never work—it's a patchset over WINE, which is a translator
| of system calls for x86 and descendant architectures only.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant the Proton security and
privacy products -- mail, passwords, vpn, and drive. Some are available
via web interface. The ones that are troublesome are ProtonMail, because I
prefer to store my mail locally, which I can do with KMail via the
ProtonMail Bridge on X86 and likely can't with ARM. (The native and web
incarnations make bottom replies damn near impossible, also.) I can also
cobble together the VPN service, but it relies on OpenVPN in that
implementation and makes switching servers a giant pita.
I don't know if there's anyone else here using ProtonMail, so it's likely
you'll have to check their download page yourself for an ARM-friendly
version of the bridge software.
You also have the option of buying up an Intel NUC or small-form-factor
x86_64 box with relatively low power requirements and setting it up to do
server jobs like pulling your mail across. It can be old and slow and sleep
most of the time to reduce its power footprint.
| Some other popular software that definitely
won't work: several
| Chrome-based browsers (Chrome itself, Vivaldi, Edge, Opera), a number
| of messaging applications like Slack and the desktop version of Skype,
| many non-Proton games, EagleCAD. Some of those may run inside
| qemu, but only with a painful speed penalty.
Hmmm. I've run Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Firefox, and so on with no
difficulty on my Pi5 machines running Debian.
Okay, apparently no one on Gentoo cared enough to keyword Vivaldi or Opera
on ARM—I just did a quick pass with grep looking for KEYWORDS="-* amd64"
or similar in the tree.
E. Liddell