How to organize qubes

[Stone-ish]

How to Organize Qubes OS:

Problem: Lack of Clarity in Instructions.

Example: Alice.

Issue: Setting up Split GPG.

It would be helpful if the page explaining “Split GPG” had more visual explanations and links to additional resources.

Solution:

Provide links to resources explaining GPG and how to create GPG keys (GPG2).
In the Vault VM, users can create GPG master keys and subkeys.
Then, users can copy these subkeys to appropriate VMs.

Additionally:

Option I: Offer basic layout templates upon installation or provide an automatic layout generation feature.
Option II: Include one or two additional layouts with step-by-step guides.

P.S. I transitioned directly from Windows 10 to Qubes OS.

Some links (helpful to have them all togeather) :

Split GPG

Advanced Spilit GPG: Can't create subkey

I am trying to set up split-gpg with subkeys, as described in section Advanced: Using Split GPG with Subkeys at Split GPG | Qubes OS. But I can’t create the subkey. In the vault VM, I create a master key: [user@vault ~]$ gpg2 --full-generate-key Then in the work-gpg VM, I cannot create a subkey of the master key in Vault VM: [user@work-gpg ~]$ echo "export QUBES_GPG_DOMAIN=vault" > ~/.profile [user@work-gpg ~]$ qubes-gpg-client --list-keys /home/user/.gnupg/pubring.kbx pub XXXXXX YYYY-MM-…

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[catacombs]

This of any interest:

Tool: Simple Set-up of New Qubes and Software

For a long while now we’ve been talking about methods of helping users set up their systems, and install and configure software. New users in particular find this difficult to deal with. Look at the repeated posts in the Forum about how to set up a VPN. Many of the guides that are produced involve users copying shell scripts into dom0 or templates and running them, and it’s obvious that many people still struggle. Wouldn’t it be better if users could just install a package that did all t…

[Stone-ish]

Thank you, this would be very helpful.

Additional point, Split GPG is possible directly from main GUI settings (I did find this like 10 min ago)* .

• Because of this, I would ask to edit this “How to” Split GPG | Qubes OS .

Thank you for your help @catacoms

Stone-ish

[catacombs]

Thanks be to unmans work.

There is an ongoing discussion about a better fix for first time users of Qubes.

[catacombs]

Uh. Where you asking for a how to for GPG?

Or maybe some other tutorial on Security? Which, I know, sometimes seems assumed with some Linux forums. Someone could point out the better instructions on security with linux. If you describe what you want, need.

Whonix website has a lot of documentation.
As does the Tails OS website.

[Stone-ish]

I found an local Qubes community, so I asked there.