Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

Re:Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system by tasn on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:00PM (#42679618)

I've always wanted to switch to qubes, but it just feels so constraining. It's safer to never leave the house, but I don't want to live in a self imposed prison. On the other hand, the isolation provided by containers and flatpak is more accessible, but with a much larger attack vector.

Maybe we need immutable OS + an audit layer on anything that could allow exploits to persist (bashrc and the likes).

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Re:Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system by irundebian on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:13AM (#42683593)

After Qubes OS I ended up using Fedora with Wayland, Flatpaks and running applications as different users but this introduced other problems.

The security profiles of many "flatpacked" applications are quite permissive (see https://flatkill.org/) so that they could be circumvented. Besides that I'm experience some convenience issues when accessing files on my drive. It's especially annoying when using "flatpacked" office such as onlyoffice.

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Re:Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system by bobertlo on Monday January 13, 2025 @12:17PM (#42685846)

I just really appreciate separating things like access credentials from things like web browsers without running multiple accounts. I do all my most and least secure activities on Qubes and use other computers for a lot of the other stuff in between.

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