Qubes OS Future

[ben-grande]

@linuxuser1

@solene

help make the system better and more popular

I noticed that the Qubes team often ignores very cool community solutions. For example, there has been a long-standing request on GitHub to make dvm in RAM, and qubist has implemented this perfectly Really disposable (RAM based) qubes his solution works by default, nothing needs to be done. Just add it to the system and enjoy. But I haven’t seen the devs pay attention to it and give all users this wonderful solution

I notice that some members of the Qubes community often think that because a forum post has a guide and works for them ^TM, then it is a proper solution and must be merged into Qubes because they are fond of the idea. That is not how it works, there are many things to consider:

• it is a shellscript, Qubes OS prefers python
• it uses a blocklist, adding a new log file to the system would be a cat and mouse game, the proper way would not save those files in non tpmfs in the first place
• there are no unit or integration tests
• a live system would be much better to guarantee that nothing is ever written to disk

I too was a complainer, saying that my X idea was not merged into Y project, but once you go the full length of a PR, you will notice how much time it takes to get just some lines of code or documentation into a project.