A modest update to Qubes OS

Re:A modest update to Qubes OS by crtasm on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:41AM (#39491085)

Can you switch to gnome for dom0? I thought KDE was the alternative.

Also:

>Another interesting change with this release the use of Xfce editions for Fedora and Debian instead of GNOME to reduce memory usage and provide a better selection of default applications. Marek Marczykowski-Górecki said that Fedora's GNOME template has too many ""problematic"" packages that ""either conflict with something or simply don't work with our GUI agent"".

I prefer Xfce FWIW.

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Re:A modest update to Qubes OS by seanhunter on Saturday February 24, 2024 @12:51PM (#39493538)

I generally use i3 for dom0 on my qubes boxes. It works great. There is generally support for a few different options in dom0 but clearly since dom0 is special you need to be mindful of reducing the software footprint as much as possible in my view.

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Re:A modest update to Qubes OS by crtasm on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:09PM (#39494750)

I can see that reasoning but also have no idea how much testing/fuzzing/etc. i3 gets compared to Xfce?

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