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.
Also would like to say thank you as well for this operating system, finally ended my frequent distro-hopping behaviour. I feel naked if I am not using qubes. Hope to one day help contribute whatever I can to help improve it too!
You can contribute a lot even without coding. For instance, by improving documentation, spreading the word, and answering questions here on the forums, when you can.
Oh I have been spreading the word as much as I can wherever relevant and even irrelevant sometimes if I can squeeze it in somehow in a random rant. Billions must adopt QubesOS. @parulin Will try to remember to write down anything that I feel would be quality feedback, absolutely.
Unfortunately imposter syndrome is so powerful I’m not confident in my coding abilities even though I’ve been coding for 20+ years casually lol
this is definetely one of the most important contributions to linux history imho. It’s like combining all of the best security measures into one distro and making it easy to use.
with all this privacy attacks we are suffering nowadays, and with the quality of the project, i’m pretty sure the user base will be even bigger in the following years!
