Is it worth having for a user who just wants everyday web browsing and who doesn’t code?
I’ve an old NUC free and am choosing a distro.
I can't imagine daily driving any other OS.
#QubesOS is God tier. It's that good.
Maybe that will change if Johanna develops something cooler, but it's going to be hard to one-up herself after creating QubesOS.
#cybersecgirl #womenwhocode #qubesos
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No. Qubes is slow and will make your CPU fan go burrrrr all the time. For your case, pick any distro and use hardened Firefox.
I take ityou've never used Qubes?
A few years back I've installed it. I doubt it's gonna run well on NCU.
Qubes 4.1 ran fine on my NUC when I had one. If you have ≤ 8GB of RAM, you'll probably want to limit the number of apps open to maximize performance (same as any other O/S).
Qubes will be about 98-99% as fast as any Linux distro. Qubes will run faster than Windows 11. This is because of the VT-x instruction set.
In case anyone is wondering, AMD has AMD-V which is their version of Intel's VT-X so you'll have the same performance with AMD whether using VMs or not. ❤️
I'll test it out when I get the chance. I like AOSP approach more.
Yes. I recommend it. IMO QubesOS model should be the way everyone uses a computer, i.e. security through isolation and compartmentalization. Not sure if QubesOS would work on a NUC though. There are hardware requirements.
I daily-drive Arch on my main PC which happens to be a NUC/nettop, and Alpine Linux on even weaker machines, even a rooted Kindle (in chroot).
It's fun to see M$ Windows copying the concepts of isloation with their integrity levels and usage of Hyper-V under the hood.
Imitation is the truest form of flattery.