Qubes sounds like something I would LOVE to dig all the way into like I did when I was younger as it sounds it is right down my alley but I’m older now and a small business owner who works 14 hour days 7 days a week. Having been a moderator for a CMS system back in the day I know I should try to find the answers in the forums but my questions are so basic I doubt I would find them. My immediate need is that I used to set up a VM (Vmware) with zero persistence and use that as my surfing machine and save anything I wanted to my personal cloud. I would then remove internet access to the host machine and didn’t have to worry about Windows stealing everything. But now that VMware has sold I’m not liking that too much. I didn’t have the time to set it up on my “new” computer a couple of years ago and now I’ve got a virused up machine again. I’ve thought about just using three or four Raspberry Pi’s to keep different uses separated? Is there a way to set up a Windows machine with zero persistence? If I just want to do a couple of different VM’s in Qubes for the above uses and use something else as a main machine is the learning curve low enough? I basically have zero time right now but my current machine is freezing or auto re-booting like 10 times a day so I have to do something. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!
Yes, without too much hassle IMO.
If I just want to do a couple of different VM’s in Qubes for the above uses and use something else as a main machine is the learning curve low enough?
I’d say so. Installing Windows and configuring QWT will probably take the most time, otherwise everything else is quite standard. There’s also the GitHub - QubesOS/qvm-create-windows-qube: Spin up new Windows qubes quickly, effortlessly and securely on Qubes OS · GitHub script to ease the installation of Windows VMs.
I know you said you have no time, but the Qubes docs are very helpful and easy to understand. The names of each topics in the table of contents are clearly labeled. So if you feel embarrassed to ask a “basic question” you will almost certainly find the answers here: Documentation — Qubes OS Documentation
Thank you for your time and reply. Sounds like I might give it a try.
If you are not attached to your tools (I.e. willing to use a different browser than Edge), just using the default templates will give you everything you want without having to spend much time configuring it:
- the nonpersistent browser is already available through creating a disposable from the default disposable template
- there is already an offline qube called vault