it's because of the Titan M chip, not because of ease of bootloader unlocking. Pixel's have much higher hardware security with only iPhones and their secure enclave matching it afaik.
zwekihoyy
joined 2 years ago
pixels have the highest hardware security of all Android phones, which increases privacy potential. assuming you keep the stock os and default Google settings, though, it's about the same as any other.
Google also has good support for alternative OS'/Android forks, which is likely where that claim is leading to.
I've fallen in the same hole before. tbh in my experience you don't really learn much until things start breaking.
most threat models aren't high enough to warrant worrying about it.
what obscurity.. is that?
this is correct.
nix package manager works on all posix compliant os' and doesn't touch system directories. everything is stored in /nix/store and symlinked to ~/.nix-profile.
personally I run an arch build and then only use nix for my packages.
the only thing I'll say is the piece about "no viruses" would kinda go away if desktop Linux picked up at all. the security on a default Linux system is worse than macos and windows with substantial hardening efforts needed. the only reason viruses and other malware isn't common on Linux as is is because of the tiny user base.
with all this said, if enterprise use got more common, security would quickly become an important aspect.
play store build is broken because of its insecurities via sdk29 usage.
this is just my opinion but if you aren't after the sandboxing benefits then don't bother with them. if you want to avoid dependency hell go with nix, if you are worried about storage space use your standard package manager, and if you want higher security without the knowledge/effort to manually do it, go with flatpak or snaps (although many flatpaks need to be further hardened via Flatseal as the dev gets to configure the sandboxing. I'm unsure how this operates under snap as I refuse to use it.)