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  • Both GNU and GrapheneOS have staunch requirements and will accept no compromises.

    This is a situation where their requirements don’t align, so they’ll never reach an agreement.

    GrapheneOS, for example, is also strictly against making the Fairphone line of phones a little more secure because it doesn’t meet all of their security requirements

    In this case GNU won’t certify GrapheneOS as fully open because it includes binaries that aren’t open

    The FSF is more along your line of improving the situation where they can


















  • To expand - DirectX is a proprietary Windows solution. Any time you pick it on Linux, it will run through a translation layer

    OpenGL/Vulkan are cross-platform

    OpenGL is to DirectX 11 as Vulkan is to DirectX 12

    Microsoft kept the same branding, but also followed in Vulkans/Metals footsteps of using lower level calls to the hardware. This makes the graphics drivers simpler, and can be way more performant because the CPU doesn’t have to do as much