Sometimes i can’t understand some of people in the forum… Simple question : Why not ?
Scenario n1 we can avoid for future users :
The first time i installed Qubes i didn’t read the official documentation (who read the official doc of a OS anyway?)
I thought the OS was a normal OS like fedora , debian etc… i connected my template to sys-firewall to install packages i didn’t know we shouldn’t do it. This popus could avoid a lot of problem, gain time for every users…
Sometimes i forget myself some “qubes commands” and i need to search on the forum or the official documentation and in my opinion it’s sometimes difficult to search some specific subject in the forum… If qubs dev add a similar popus a users will gain time just by reading the popups and copy and past the commands from the popus.
Scenario n2 : Alice boot Qubes for the first time in his life she want to connect to internet. But she didn’t know his wifi driver need “a special installation” ex : The driver need to be installed in dom0 or need to be find on github somewhere… Now Alice is stuck in dom0 she doesn’t have internet and she is angry how she suppose to open your link ? How your “link” will explain how to copy and paste from dom0 to vm ? 99% of users at the first installation doesn’t know how to copy paste from dom0 to vm how you solve the issue ?
Scenario n3 : Alice is still stuck in dom0 like this user without internet she realize she can use her phone to give internet access to the PC but doesn’t know how because of sys-usb we can just explain in the popup this :
1. Connect phone to laptop
2. In Android > Hotspot and Tethering > Enable USB tethering
3. In Qubes Devices Manager, connect the phone to sys-net
4. You should have internet now.
Isn’t just better to do that ?.. You rather see noob user struggling than just having this popup in dom0? well…