Why are you using Qubes OS instead of XYZ?

[solene]

Hello! I’m curious to know why people use Qubes OS in the first place. It offers many features, but I assume most people want Qubes OS only for a subset of those?

Personally, I’d rather use OpenBSD or NixOS, but Qubes OS offers the following things for me:

• trustable net-vm, so I can run programs with a VPN but not everything, and I can trust it won’t work if the VPN is disabled
• better way to organize my stuff. I don’t like to know my personal files are in the same context than when I develop or do stuff on the internet
• hard to break and easily reproducible, thanks to templates and Salt stack

I barely use disposable it seems very popular among users, that’s why I thought it would be interesting to read about what makes Qubes OS appealing.

[balko]

Should I use Qubes?

Kind of true. If one uses laptop with CPU that is not recent Intel 11-12Gen then it’s quite possible that even Youtube will be quite laggy playing basic 1080p@60fps videos. In Kubuntu it will work flawlessly even in 5 players simultaneously due to hardware acceleration that is not available to qubes in Qubes OS. Other stuff is about twice slower to my estimation, that is not a lot. Qubes OS has several advantages over GNU/Linux for average users: It can run applications completely offline…

Do you really need to use Qubes?

While sometimes great, I like more having the GUI of a VM all insider a separate window, and I find the seamless method from Qubes less useful.

Why one would use Qubes OS?

In this blog post, I tried to share my thoughts about Qubes OS, because it’s really hard to describe it to someone when they ask why would someone use that. I’ll talk about it in our internal knowledge sharing session at my job later in the week, that was the opportunity to gather thoughts before making some talk with slides I’d be curious to read your opinions about that

[solene]

Must be tired, I forgot I created something similar 2 months ago X_X

Thanks!

[gonzalo-bulnes]

Won’t delete it, but I closed the topic. Since you’ve posted I added a link to the pre-existing one as the “solution” to make it appear near the first post, I think this should be enough? @solene

Also, I re-established the title for clarity. I believe the conversation will guide folks to the place they’re looking for.

Edit: I also moved the topic from User support - General to the General discussion category.

[gonzalo-bulnes]

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