There are a number of Qubes community guides I’d like to implement. It’s very time-consuming to do this, however. Is there any tool that would allow automation of such guides?

How do you imagine such implementation/automation?

I thought this is what Salt is for? Combined with a more elaborate version of Qubes OS Helper , we could make this nice.

I imagine that someone creates a community guide and then also creates a version that has commands to be run in dom0 with a script for waiting before applying certain steps if necessary. Running such a script at first might not be safe, but over time if the community said it was good, then someone …

I thought about this too, like if there were another tab for Qubes OS Helper and Guides could just be changed to some sort of format. But some guides require manual steps or verification or creations of password, so it would need to be semi-automated. I’d really like to be able to just cut a block …

So, you want to copy code from distrusted infrastructure and paste it in dom0, so you can run it easily. Even if we ignore the anti-security of all that, that is not learning (what a guide is supposed to help). That is blind copying. I would recommend against that. I wouldn’t copy and paste code f…

The community guides have no guarantees about their quality. In fact, I’ve seen numerous guides being praised while being very dubious. That’s not something you would like to copy-paste. There is no way to authenticate their content, and it wouldn’t be difficult for an attacker to create an account…

As long as the community guide creator or a community member creates a salt for it yeah its easy as pie, otherwise no On the other hand this is a slippery slope which can lead to backdoors the same way the AUR is always getting infected and even if we get enough mods to vet the salts then who is go…

[image] whoqubes: Running such a script at first might not be safe, but over time if the community said it was good, then someone could just run it. Then you are trusting opinions instead of auditing source code, the Privacy Guides Community is structured exactly for the former: [ima…

[image] whoqubes: There are a number of Qubes community guides I’d like to implement. It’s very time-consuming to do this, however. Is there any tool that would allow automation of such guides? The process I take is to hand-translate the guide to private scripting in my own style. That way e…

[image] qubist: Even if we ignore the anti-security of all that, that is not learning (what a guide is supposed to help). That is blind copying. I would recommend against that. I wouldn’t copy and paste code from forum even for my own guides. In my defense, you’re probably smarter than me.

Is there a method to apply community guides automatically?

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FranklyFlawless August 10, 2026, 11:56pm 9

Then you are trusting opinions instead of auditing source code, the Privacy Guides Community is structured exactly for the former: