New YouTube Qubes OS tutorial (by CYBER Wad_)

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GUI application or not this is bad advice. It’s trivial to run GUI
updater through a proxy in the templates.

I know it is bad advice. My question is, to what extent? Especially for users who have never touched a terminal.

I have created a dedicated thread for this (named “GUI-only software instalation: Thoughts?”)

GUI-only software installation: Thoughts? (fedora)

As far as I know in order to use the “Software” graphical installer on fedora (which shows in the application list of fedora-32 by the way) on has to enable internet access to the TemplateVM. (or use the updates proxy, but activating that requires the terminal, which we are avoiding in the first place) This discussion follows because some tutorial for Qubes compelled users to do this (and it may be bad advice). I wanted to know the community’s thoughts on this. I’ll outline mine bellow. The…