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>>RafelM+(OP)
I am looking forward to Spectrum which tries to make secure computing usable - https://spectrum-os.org/ .

>>yewenj+ck
Qubes is much more usable than people think. My daily driver for many years already.

See also discussion of Spectrum OS on Qubes forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/spectrum-os-discussion/1531.

>>fsflov+mk
> My daily driver for many years already.

Would you like to share more about your experience? How resource-intensive is it, what you do, what would a normal workflow look like with it compared to, say, a Fedora desktop?

>>rbanff+7l
If your work requires GPU acceleration, then you're out of luck [0]. Normal apps like a browser, LibreOffice work fine. Hardware virtualization is extremely secure [1] and also fast. Everything which works on Linux should work on Qubes, including drivers (which are usually isolated in their own VMs). You can also run several different Linux flavors simultaneously [2] and Windows [3], too. The downside is that you really need a lot of RAM for that (unless you try to minimize your VMs [4], which is an advanced feature). I have 32 GB, and I never run out of RAM.

I love that you can explicitly compartmentalize your digital live into independent VMs with a great unified interface. I have "work" VM which contains all work stuff and "personal" VM for personal things. More thoughts from me: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-ga...

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/

[2] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/#official

[3] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows/

[4] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/minimal/

>>fsflov+9m
> If your work requires GPU acceleration, then you're out of luck

ok...

> Normal apps like a browser, LibreOffice work fine

Without GPU acceleration, a browser won't work fine

>>krageo+sO
> Without GPU acceleration, a browser won't work fine

Disagreed - it does work fine. Maybe there's specific niche features that don't work but I have yet to come across them. Only problem is video decoding which works but uses lots of CPU so terrible for laptop battery life.

>>Nextgr+uW
It really depends. It may work fine, but it'll be using more CPU resources than it would with the GPU.