Q&A Livestream: Your privacy & security questions answered! (October ‘24)

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This article, part of the /e/OS documentation, explains most (if not everything) you may want to know about the GSI.

Quoting the relevant part of the article to satisfy your curiosity (why you shouldn’t use a GSI OS image as a daily driver):

What the GSI is not
• Do not use the GSI on a device you use as a daily driver. Use it only on a test device
• A GSI should boot on any compatible device, but may not offer a full support of all its features
• All hardware features will not work on a GSI
• All software features will not work on a GSI
• Remember the GSI is only used to test the OS implements vendor interfaces correctly. Which means it is a testing tool rather than a full fleged implmentation of the OS.
• There will be no OTA (over the air) updates for the GSI’s. This means that the user will have to install new GSI builds manually every time it is released, or when they want want to update it.