On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:04:36 +0000 dep via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > said E. Liddell via tde-users: > | On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 07:57:39 +0000 > | > | dep via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
