DM54Hoping someone out there can help me understand what's happening with Signal and its desktop implementations. Trying it out on phone with my partner as we de-bigtech and the reviews on flathub are brutal. But also from a while back. 1. Is plaintext passwords on desktop still the issue, 2. Are there workarounds? 3. How bad is the issue at all? For our personal stuff fine to stay on phone, but there's a big picture plan to move some professional work off WhatsApp to signal. #linux #fedora #signal
etym dub@davidmaddock Caveats: never used Fedora, am only linux *user*, not even vereran let alone expert, but it looks from a quick web search like Fedora can use Waydroid. If that doesn't cause more problems than it solves, might get you the phone app *on* the desktop?
@etym_dub Cheers, I looked at waydriod for some other workarounds. Kind of a different solution for a different problem tbh. 1. I kinda hated it. Would only use it if there was something that had to be used. Some work situation where a particular app had to be used to login or access or something. 2. In the case of WhatsApp am proactively trying to get away from (in this case) Meta. So it's really starting from FOSS and native Linux support of somekind while also, in the case of messaging, having support on other platforms too. responses to my post have gotten me where I wanted to be. Signal fits the bill of being better than WhatsApp, on all systems, and there's a viable security follow up for the linux desktop app thanks to a link provided. Wins all round.