I took the time to fresh-reinstall a test laptop with R4.3.0, after playing with liteqube and other 3rd party stuff on the previous R4.3.0 install.
The reinstall was performed using the defaults with two exceptions:
1- used debian-13-xfce as default template (not fedora-42-xfce)
2- used a combined sys-net + sys-usb, disposable.
After the successful install and the customary “update everything including dom0” on the first boot, and another reboot, the following bugs are immediately apparent.
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The graphical USB widget (“Qubes Devices”) is pretty much unusable. It can attach ONCE a USB device to a qube, but then that particular device is gone - and cannot be detached, or re-attached, using the graphical interface.
Note that after confirming that the bug is present when sys-net was using the Qubes-install-generated default-dvm using the debian-13-xfce template, I changed the dvm template to use fedora-42-xfce and the behavior is identical.
This is mostly a “cosmetical” issue because and advanced user (like me, LOL) can use qvm-block to manipulate the USB devices without problems. I can see how this issue would aggravate someone not familiar with QubesOS, though. -
The (graphical) Qubes OS Global Config adds “Community Testing Templates” unprompted, on the first use(!)
This is a head-scratcher for me. I (maybe) understand why thewhonix-*- 18templates are under the “Community Templates” repo - but there is no valid reason to sneakily enable “Community Testing Templates” on anybody!