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  • There was a major focus shift maybe 5 or 10 years ago towards security in Linux design, especially with the development of Wayland, pipewire and systemd. The problem is that accessibility software behaves in many ways like spyware or malware. It reads all windows, it hooks themselves in programs, it redirects output and input. The security focused (even security first) approach of many developers broke all the accessibility workflows and proper API to do it the new and safe way have low priority. A few exist but it is still far away from feature parity.

    That’s why I am against the Wayland default or even worse Wayland only approach that many distributions have nowadays, Wayland is still barely useable for many people who need working accessibility solutions and that should be seen as a major stopper issue for a wide release like that.





  • Atomic/immutable distros are just another tool in the tool box. It is great for systems with a limited use scenario like the SteamDeck or HTPCs. I also love to install immutable distributions on systems where the user (often IT-illiterate) and the administrator are different people.

    On my desktop PC I will, for the foreseeable future, use a normal distro (ArchLinux in my case) but i am planing to look into changing my servers to immutable with docker. That could make updates/maintenance easier and reduce the risk for full server compromises