Qubes OS

Reader supplied reviews for Qubes OS Average rating 8.8 from 37 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Qubes OS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 4.2.34.1.23.2.121.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 4.2.3 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-10-27 Votes: 0 Qubes is awesome for teaching the basics of how to use virtualization to increase security. I ran it as a daily driver for quite some time until I decided to switch to OpenBSD because not a huge XFCE fan in general. I still use it one my big slow hard drive that I use to back all my other stuff up with. Its great for that in that you can run whatever OS as a guest to back up the filesystem you care about natively. And with LVM it will actually create the filesystem with native performance which is great. Its still probably the most secure OS there is but it has other use cases as well. I deducted 1 point because forced to use XFCE which not a huge fan of. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.2.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-05-28 Votes: 44 Rocking Qubes on a 2011 laptop (2nd gen Intel i5 (Hyperthreading disabled), 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) is WAY smoother than you'd think, you can eaisly run up to ~10 VMs without any performance issues, even with a full KDE Plasma desktop which is notorious for being a resource hog Best parts about it are the control over networking, on a VM for accessing your home network you can limit outgoing connections to just the LAN, or for a vault VM you can cut networking altogether for peace of mind, being able to use DisposableVMs for anything that doesn't need persistent storage eg. browsing the web, and the fact it's just a Type 1 Hypervisor, you can literally run Windows on it if you want Even for advanced users it can be difficult to use because of it's abstractions like templates, ServiceVMs and the global clipboard, but the wiki is amazingly written, getting you ready in a couple minutes The pages for advanced users are on par, or even better than Arch Wiki, with pages on practically anything you could ever want to modify on the base system Before installing you should read the Wiki first. At the end of the day Qubes isn't a silver bullet, but a tool (arguably the best one) for keeping yourself safe, and what good is a tool you don't know how to use? Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.2.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-01-20 Votes: 30 I use it every day, it is like one mega-OS. Any distro of linux you want - you have. The support is great, forum is very actice and has many helpful guides so that you arent aimlessly looking forever for a solution to your issue. Many popular companies/people use qubes for its security such as MULLVAD and Let's Encrypt. Only thing is that the mirror system is quite slow, yes it is a big download (6GB) but could have better mirror support upon install. Not an issue however, as the main system is wonderful. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 37 reader reviews of Qubes OS...