[tde-users] Re: Would this work with TDE?

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. | 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. | The Pi is an ARM system, so if it works on a Pi, it works on ARM. | Conversely, if it doesn't work on a popular and well-supported SBC like | the Pi, it's unlikely to work on other ARM systems. I guess I'm hoping to some extent that the move to RISC systems will be great enough that developers will be pretty much forced to support them. Having been an OS/2 user and on Linux since 1998 I'm accustomed to kludges and workarounds, but there are a few things out with which I will not do. I have TDE on the Pi machines, no problem. So I guess it comes down to the Proton products (again, the privacy and security applications, not games). -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/