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
Discussion
Is it more secure than TailsOS?
Tails is for a different purpose. It's great at what it does, but it's not designed or intended for daily driving.
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.
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.
Damn. That lady’s bad ass.
Yes, she is. A personal, "command line hero" of mine, so to speak.
#NixOS comes close IMO if strict rigorous isolation isn't a primary concern, vs just sandboxing identities/exit connections.
But #QubesOS is excellent at making sure you know exactly what you're doing before you're even able to actually shoot yourself in the foot
The learning curve for it is quite steep, I'm still not comfortable to use it daily but I understand why it's much better for privacy and security.
I had no idea #QubesOS was built by her 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Looks like I'll have to give #QubesOS a shot 🔥🔥🔥
I've tried #Tails so far for security OSes