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Qubes OS 4.2.1 has been released

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Re: Qubes OS 4.2.1 has been released

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Post by Modified3019 » Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 11:22 PM UTC

not_a_real_56 wrote: post #8

processunknown wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spectrum OS aims to more lightweight but its not a drop in replacement nor is it stable afaik. https://spectrum-os.org/

Thanks for the link, reading it now. :)

The livestream recordings page (which I am not suggesting you sit down and try to watch, just have a look at the titles/thumbnails) offers a nice peek into the development. IMO it provides a little better context of where the project is at than the project page.

https://diode.zone/c/spectrum/videos?s=1

Nowhere near ready, but definitely a project to check back in yearly on.

Re: Qubes OS 4.2.1 has been released

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Post by mikedelfino » Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 11:26 PM UTC

not_a_real_56 wrote: post #4

I might be in the minority here, but I haven't fallen in love with Qubes. Or I should say, my use case doesn't work with Qubes and that is generally laptop computing where I am taking my laptop to and from work, to and from school, etc. I felt like the sleep/wake functions were non-existent. Also, my laptop only has 16GB of RAM. Qubes seems to be great if you have a decently powerful desktop pushing several cores and…

> maybe it would be better if instead of VMs it moved to containers?

Don't Flatpak apps run in "containers" already? They're not exactly like Podman but are containerized nevertheless. This should probably work better for you.

I understand that Qubes targets a different threat model.

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