I am having so much fun with disposable VMs (DVM) in #Qubes, it should be illegal!
I'm doing #dev work again today and when I think I have the minimal commands to reproduce an issue, I'll spin up a DVM, paste the commands and make sure I hit the problem I expected. If not, I'll poke around to fix it (install a dependency, update the PATH, etc.) and then repeat.
Takes about 8 second to spin up a fresh VM. Very rapid #development!
I wish Qubes had a better user interface and support for GPUs so you could play games.
It has support for the passing through GPUs to Qubes, so if you have to have a Windows qube with direct access to a GPU, you can absolutely do that.
I haven't done it myself, but I have passed through other PCI devices.
Not sure what you mean about the user interface. It has a launcher menu in the corner to start apps in various qubes, ability to easily move files from one qube to another, USB passthrough, ability to change which networking gateway is used (Tor, VPN, clearnet, other, or none), and all this without ever touching a command line.
And I don't want to wait those extra few seconds so I spin up a fresh qube and have it on standby, because I know I'm going to need it in a few minutes. As soon as I start using that one, I spin up another fresh one in the background. 😂
