Trinity Desktop Environment
www.trinitydesktop.org

So, a while back I installed Xfce with Chicago95, but was disappointed. Xfce just doesn’t vibe with me, and a strict emulation of Windows95 is not really what I wanted, I just wanted something that “felt” that classic.

So I was gonna give up and just use KDE, until I saw TDE. I think TDE is probably what I’m looking for but I’m concerned about using anything so minor because security.

It TDE secure (for personal use)?

Can a DE even be insecure, or are they all generally as secure as each-other as long as you follow the rules (trustworthy software, closed firewall, install patches fast, and disaster recovery plans)?

What vulnerabilities can a desktop environment even have (edit)?

  • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I guess it all comes down to the security of X11, and also whether X11 could even be exploited without arbitrary code execution though Anki or Firefox or Steam Chat or something. At which point no sane hacker would waste such an exploit on X11 that’s rapidly becoming defunct.

    An extreme case, I also know of a someone who used Windows XP to do rather important work on the internet until around 2020… But they did follow the basic rules as you mentioned and seemed to be just fine.

    I think they skipped the third rule, install patches fast.