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What Is Qubes OS?

(www.qubes-os.org)
224 points LinuxBender | 1 comments | 09 Jul 22 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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sacrosanct ◴[09 Jul 22 17:37 UTC] No.32037442[source]▶
Anyone use this as a daily driver? I tried installing it and it crashed on first run. Should have looked at the list of compatible laptop models first. It’s a bit overkill for my needs. My threat model doesn’t require me to spawn a disposable Fedora VM just to read a PDF document. I just open a PDF in Google Docs.
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1. jamal-kumar ◴[09 Jul 22 17:56 UTC] No.32037630[source]▶
I have in the past before I became bound to doing windows-compatible development. It was actually really great. I didn't hate it at all.

I liked the ability to run multiple linux distros and a windows 7 VM for stuff that needed that, but scrubbing PDFs I think is one of those underrated things considering how much malware comes in through those. Like I would rather not do that in a docker container of all broken condoms. Right now I just have a seperate computer to take care of that. I'd probably use qubes if I had an intel laptop as my daily driver again.

Oh and the only other thing was laptop battery life. Maybe an hour and a half tops.