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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • UWP 💀

    UWP is Microsoft’s “new” app format, it’s what the windows store and the xbox use.

    It also isn’t compatable with wine, and my pet theory is that this was the entire point of it. Combined with Windows S mode, which doesn’t let you install apps other than from the windows store, the goal was to lock down the windows ecosystem by having apps that can’t be made to run on linux.

    I remember seeing a compatability layer for UWP apps a while ago, and I am pleased to see that it has come this far. Great work!

    Edit: wait this uses a windows VM. Still good though and lets people escape the windows ecosystem.





  • Share your lsblk output. It’s likely that your system still leaves the bootloader unencrypted on the disk, even if the kernels and bootloader config are being encrypted (they aren’t encrypted by default on most installs).

    It is theoretically possible to have only one partition that is luks encrypted, but this requires you to store the bootloader in the UEFI, and not all motherboards support this, so distros usually just install it to an unencrypted partition. The UEFI needs to be able to read an unencrypted bootloader from somewhere. That’s why it’s somewhat absurd to claim that the ESP can be encrypted, because it simply can’t.

    From your link:

    One difference is that the kernel and the initrd will be placed in the unencrypted ESP,