In the years I have been using Qubes and lurking and in the two years I’ve been on the forum, I’ve recently seen a marked decline in support requests for big issues, and a marked increase in feature requests. To me, this is a milestone in project stability and usability and says that Qubes has matured.
Don’t misunderstand: there’s still a long way to go with a mile-long list of great things to add, from the GUI and audio virtualization, to more OSes (even if just Mirage, *BSD, and non-systemd Linux e.g. Alpine), to WYNG backup or similar, etc.
But the point is that the work put into Qubes has paid off, Qubes is very usable and has accomplished its major goal of reasonable security, and I’m very grateful to all the devs and contributors. I see Qubes going very far, current events notwithstanding.
Congratulations and thanks. I appreciate you.