This sums it up well I believe. I am a fast learner with an almost genius IQ and coming from windows to qubes has made me feel extremely stupid. I am documenting my journey and plan to make video tutorials that will tackle the problems as they arise to a typical human.
For starters it appears as though you can not even make a bootable usb for qubes on a windows PC. I tried a dozen times on three different PCs and every time I would try to install I would get an error that said “can not install qubes without installing the linux kernel.”. I had given up when a few days later the thought popped into my head that maybe to save space or something the iso pulled the kernel from the PC when the bootable usb was made which cant be true and sounds ridiculous but I got that funny feeling and installed Kali linux on an old laptop and downloaded the iso and made a bootable usb and it worked the first time.
Great I thought so lets rock. All was well until until I got to the disk partitioning and hit another wall. This looks complicated and dangerous if I make a mistake. Struck with decision paralysis I started to look for information on the qubes install and partitioning process. Hours and hours later I discovered that the installer was basically the same as the Debian installer(whatever the hell that is) and within 5 minutes I was back to installation.
Now I am stuck at trying to get my raid drives to be usable and I have the feeling that it will take five minutes to fix once I know what information I am even looking for. I am currently reading pages and pages of documentation on LVMs as the first sentence of the guild to set up slave drives starts by saying assuming you have already set up your LVM… I expect after several more hours of fishing around I will solve the issue and be able to guide someone else thru the process in a matter of minutes.
The good news is the next problem I get to solve has documentation that for the love of god I hope will be simple to follow and absorb. I have not looked yet because I can not bear the thought of it being another rabbit hole of jargon to unpack before finding an answer that could be expressed in a few sentences.
But year I am documenting my experience and plan to make a simple how to to get the average user thru the very basic stuff required to make qubes a functional OS. It looks worth the trouble but it couldnt be more obvious that the people writing the documentation have no idea what a regular windows user is going to have to deal with when switching to Qubes OS. This is kind of surprising since most people in a position to blow the whistle on the government or evil corporation are going to be coming from a windows background…
He is my thread if anyone is interested in volunteering to help me out, If I can get it sorted out I would love to help others never have to go thru this.