Rebecca Mahany-Horton

After we release the new autoupdater (https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/954), there are some improvements I'd like to make and new features we can add -- - [ ] https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/1412 - [ ] https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/1705...

Closes https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/1490

Make launcher available per-architecture

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We will likely want to start supporting launcher on ARM for Windows and Linux, and potentially may want to ship separate builds per-architecture for macOS instead of shipping a universal...

Can't open browser from menu bar app or notification on Ubuntu 23 with Wayland, PopOS 22.04, potentially others

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For Ubuntu 23 with Wayland: we rely on [Xwayland](https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/main/ee/desktop/runner/runner_linux.go#L262) to be running in order to grab the `DISPLAY`, which we need to be able to open URLs from the menu...

Launcher autoupdate potentially, occasionally does not shut down osqueryd process properly

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Immediately after the last two launcher releases, I've gotten alerts for logs matching this osquery issue: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/7796. The most recent device in question had autoupdated itself already, and the logs...

Speed up tuf.CheckExecutable

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We make 2+ calls to `tuf.CheckExecutable` during startup (two to verify the osqueryd binary, and zero or more to verify the selected launcher binary if updates are present). These calls...

After getting through everything that's required for initial NixOS support and rolling it out (https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/896), there are some items I'd like to come back to in order to improve maintainability...

We use [ff](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/peterbourgon/ff), which uses [flag](https://pkg.go.dev/flag) for command-line arg parsing, right now. This hampers our ability to parse flags on launcher startup because `flag` cannot handle unknown command-line flags --...

We see logs on osquery extension startup showing: 1. no osquery updates found 1. the originally installed osquery executable is determined to not be executable: `fullBinaryPath not executable. Returning nil`...

When launcher service is manually stopped, it should remain in the stopped state until manually started

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Sometimes, when stopping the launcher service via the Service Manager, we see a pop-up that says "Windows could not stop the LauncherKolideK2Svc service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process...