The first was the amazon sponsored search. But that was a few years ago.
Constantly it’s Canonical’s not invented here syndrome where they don’t work with others to do new stuff but instead opt to push their own solutions which often fail.
Snap’s dependency on a proprietary store backend.
And the latest is locking some security updates behind a mandatory Ubuntu Pro account.
Nothing quite as bad as what Microsoft is doing with Windows. But not really in the great fluffy open source spirit either.
Luckily thanks to open source nobody is forced to put up with any of that.
Less of an option and more of choosing the right tool to do the trick.
In day-to-day life I might not care how files are deleted. But when I intend to sell my drive on ebay or so I would make sure that really all the data ia gone.
I installed GNOME on my KDE fedora install some time ago not realizing it would litter my install with gnome apps. Wondering if there’s a safe and easy way to remove them. Everyone online seems to say that removing a DE risks uninstalling a lot of stuff and thought I should ask here to be sure....
tldr: Use systemd-boot instead of grub to boot. And then unl0kr to give you an on-screen keyboard.
A little more technical:
Are you intending to use unl0kr for decryption? I used that on my Steam Deck. Whatever you use, it cannot use your normal graphical login. It has to be packed into the kernel’s initrd because when you want to decrypt your drive nothing else is available. I used unl0kr.
You cannot use grub unless you have /boot on an unencrypted partition. Because grub has its own decryption process which is very minimal. It does not have access to the kernel (which leaves you without any hardware acceleration for the decryption, making it very slow.
Systemd-boot works by putting the kernel and initrd on the unencrypted EFI partition on /boot/efi.
So you can either use grub with an unencrypted /boot or systemd-boot with everything copied onto EFI. Whatever you use, try to get to a state where you’re greeted with a slightly more pleasing passphrase entry, maybe on a plymouth bootscreen, instead of grub’s own ugly entry screen.
When you have come so far you can try to get unl0kr to work.
I don’t have the energy to type more but hopefully this can steer you in the right direction. Your actual login manager or desktop environment don’t factor into this at all.
If you do want to only see the login prompt from your login manager you have to store the decryption key in TPM. No idea how that is set up but automatic decryption without typing in a passphrase sounds iffy to me.
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