How long did it take you to get used to Qubes?

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Two weeks.

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2-3 days but the first time i installed Qubes i didn’t understand how to install software and update template so i put sys-firewall as network for template

Qubes dev need to put a warning at the first boot about this

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When switching to Qubes OS:

  • my threat model was pretty simple after having been way more complicated
  • I was using Debian-based distros for many years
  • I had to wait for better hardware to be able to use it (so, like @GWeck I had time to read things about Qubes OS)
  • I was barely using my computer, maybe once a week
  • I was mostly doing basic things: web browsing, file transfers, text edition, backups…

So it was quite smooth, I used a standalone to switch more quickly, even if it was inefficient. Compared to the previous situation, it was still better. So, since that time (2 or 3 years ago?), I’ve been peacefully learning things one after another.

There is a lot to learn, but it seems to me that your feeling might be more related to the security considerations than the OS itself? One important word here is “reasonably” (secure).

I would advocate for the opposite view :slight_smile: Unless you do something in dom0, it was easier for me to play with qubes than to try to understand the docs.

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Coming from Arch linux made my experience far less troublesome it seems

Tails is way better for anti-forensics capabilities oob. But it’s not something to use long term for daily driving

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Probably a month or so. Now, I’m not even comfortable to use any other system and many things will have to wait until I get to my computer, be it email, online shopping, web search, etc. And I’m not even a person who has much to hide.

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The transition from Linux to Qubes as a daily driver was pretty smooth. Qubes is actually marginally easier than maintaining a Linux system as a daily driver because any broken software or configuration issues are isolated to templates that I can easily replace.

There are a lot of home linux users who distrohop or reinstall if they get any serious system issues to save time. I doubt many Qubes users have that issue.

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roughly two to three hours. but modifying the system was not as easy, took me a few days.

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