…that proved that the algorithms/protocols work.

You can use a perfect algorithm and still be insecure because the implementation was bad. You are trusting the SimpleX Chat devs to a degree.

I wouldn’t trust encryption made by anti-vaxer more than…

Important to note: SimpleX Chat has gone through two security audits.

The SimpleX Chat is AGPL. If the founder is problematic, one can fork it and avoid reinventing what has already been made.

It is forkable if necessary. I do think SimpleX is a great piece of software that shouldn’t be reinvented because of the founder.

(DBus-based?)

Yeah. iwd even has this issue where it needs you to run a system dbus (presumably so regular users can configure network and the admin can apply dbus polices) even if you do everything as root. No dbus, no function.

Not good.

Really Linux distros just didn’t work with it right out of the box…

From what I’ve read, this is misleading. Default secureboot within Windows will only boot a bootloader signed with Microsoft’s key. Although Microsoft does seem to provide a signing service for signing with their keys, this is at their mercy. Windows made a change that broke booting alternative operating systems unless they use a service that Windows provides to fix it, or disable secureboot.

The “I hate change.” Mindset.

Or maybe it’s extra complexity that often leads to the first recommendation to fixing Linux not booting being “disable secureboot” and how this is an extra hurdle to jump through for new users. As well as increased likelihood of problems, due to secureboot.