I was using qubes os and I interrupted that to answer a few text messages on my phone.
It took longer than I expected so I ended up ~10 minutes of chatting on the phone.
When I returned to my qubes os machine, it was unresponsive. There wasn’t a screensaver visible, I was seeing my qubes os desktop and the windows open on it in front of me.
However, my key presses were not registering, neither my mouse movements.
I thought that there was an invisible screen saver active, so I entered my login password even though there were no password box visible infront of me.
That didn’t work. QubesOS was unresponsive. And I had to hard shutdown the machine by pressing and holding to the power button.
Combine this issue with the occasional halts during boot that I reported, QubesOS reveal itself somewhat unusable to me as a daily driver. And I don’t say that with a glee nor driving joy out of bashing it.
I really want to use QubesOS daily, since I started to care about my infosec. But those halts and bouts of unresponsive states make it very difficult.