Tik Tok Money accelerates the when, the point in time, when a usable, more polished Qubes is available.
I see some ideas put forward, that are like the perfect solution.
I was going to suggest to a more simplistic, way forward.
Then I wanted to experiment with the versions from downloading entire Qubes. As I do not have at home internet, and my public library was not open. So the impracticality of my what I thought was a good solution. Well.
Still. It is possible to create Qubes that might be directly installed, no salt. Salt may be a better solution, but it does not feel like it will take less time as testing and such.
As the first thing a person who needs a secure connection needs is a VPN.
First Qubes for the VPN’s ( which are not complained about as being , owned by someone who might be exploiting them, and/or, . . . .
As work flow, I imagine one having a disp Qube that is open to the internet, and
Such as a Template and a disp App for Mullvad. Or other browsers. Claws Mail.
then the information should be moved to an offline Qube , for viewing, preparing reply, deciding what to keep.
So a Template that is offline, with most of the standard types of tools, office, calculator already installed. this list could be from someone more knowledgeable than myself.
A Template that is prepared to allow installation of Snap Packages, Flatpak, Gnome, gee would that include Synaptic. So the user could clone up this Qube, and install what he desires with less study, looking back and forth to documentation.
Notes somewhere on how to move things between Qubes.
I feel unman has created Qubes already that cover some of the other needs.
Qube for use with a secure chat, and there are several options, I feel, just one of the reviewed software ones,
If we can find a Video chat that is not from an authoritarian country with adequate encryption protocols. Put that in a Qube by itself.
I had read that Ubuntu had an, “I talk, it types.” if it works, and it is free, then create a qube for that, that is always offline. but I have not found that applications (I talk it types)
This seems to cover a lot of, what the newcomer might need. If the user will stick to the flow of work, receive information in one set of disp Temporary Qube, transfer to a Qube for actual viewing and such.
If just one more Qube, is to be created, then it would be the tempate which already has all the connections to allow software to be installed without a lot of terminal work. Like has Flatpak installed. Snap Installed, the installers needed for the other software. and it will leave a clickable tab to be shown, for any Software installed.