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For hardware compatibility issues, refer to our [[known issues|support/known_issues]].
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To learn what you can do with Tails, refer to our [[documentation|doc]].
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For questions related to Tor, see also to the [Tor support pages](https://support.torproject.org/).
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Tails is part of the [Tor Project](https://torproject.org/).
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Tails [[was founded|news/celebrating_10_years]] in 2009 and [[joined forces with Tor|news/tails_tor]] in 2024.
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Ubuntu is led by [[!wikipedia Canonical (company) desc="Canonical"]], a for-profit corporation that takes most of the important decisions.
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People have asked for Tails with LXDE, XFCE, MATE, KDE, and so on, but we are not going to use a different desktop.
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The main drawback of GNOME is that it requires quite a lot of resources, but GNOME has many advantages, especially for users who are new to Linux.
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The GNOME desktop is:
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Well integrated
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That's also why we are not going to provide more than one desktop option.
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No. Upgrading whenever you get a notification from *[[Tails Upgrader|doc/upgrade]]* is enough.
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If you upgrade the system yourself using `apt` or *Synaptic*, you might break things.
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Our team sometimes publishes emergency releases, whenever important security upgrades are available in Debian or *Tor Browser* before the next scheduled release.
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<p>In the future, we might make it possible to verify the integrity of a Tails
USB stick from another trusted OS. ([[!tails_ticket 7496]])</p>
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[[!img doc/anonymous_internet/tor/tor.png link="no" class="svg" alt="A Tor connection goes through 3 relays with the last one establishing the actual connection to the final destination"]]
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[[!img doc/anonymous_internet/tor/vpn.png link="no" class="svg" alt="A VPN connection goes through a single relay"]]
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But VPNs have clear benefits over Tor in some situations where strong anonymity is not needed, for example:
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To access websites that block Tor or can only be accessed from a given country
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To use videoconferencing tools like *Jitsi* or *Zoom*
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