New QubesOs wannabe user, please advice

[alzer89]

@anon13425142

I don’t have any compatible hardware already to play with Qubes

Seriously? Your current daily driver can’t boot the Qubes OS installer ISO? You’re kidding…

You’re either daily-driving an Apple Silicon machine, or a 32-bit CPU from the 90’s…

@anon13425142

@fsflover

AFAIK you don’t have to undo it to use UEFI, although I might be mistaken here.

Yes, but there probably is a trade-off between safety and loosing functionality, hence any new situation could have a different decision to disable or not.

The HAP bit, is exactly what it sounds like: a bit. It’s a switch that can be turned on and off. If you want it on, you turn it on. If you want it off, you turn it off.

@anon13425142

But I was thinking that the Qubes architecture would support both options in a safe way and would allow options like for instance Vpn over Tor more easy configurable.

Here are some guides for you:

VPN->tor->VPN->tor guide

In Hitchhiker’s guide to anonymity the best scheme to use is Tor over VPN over TOR. However, i need to hide my Tor activity from my ISP and in my country Tor is banned, so i need a VPN in the beginning of the scheme. Is there a guide on how to setup such scheme? Can i clone this guy networking, is it safe to use?

Is there a chain vpn(tor over multiple vpns) guide?

I failed to find one. I know that eventually adversary is probably gonna get threw them, but if you set one up at Russia, other one at China, they are probably won’t be able to or it will take them a long time (Me->vpn1->vpn2->tor->internet)

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/tor-vpn-reflections-on-popular-advice/10783

@anon13425142

I think Qubes would be the best environment for these kind of configurations

What do you mean by this? Can you be a little more specific?