Excellent write-up!
Though, it’s a pity that a great ambassador of OpenBSD has stopped using it.
Welcome to the dark side! Although I am curious how long you will stay with QubesOS… I have the feeling its overkill for non-snowden use-cases. Also it would be interesting why you went from OpenBSD directly to Linux and didn’t take freebsd into consideration? Or if you tried, what made your decision to go for Linux instead?
As someone who does a lot of infrastructure work on AWS, Azure, GCP etc, it’s just about the only operating system I’ll use at this point for that kind of work. The isolation I get per-client and per-environment is unmatched. There’s a little more upfront work to get everything the way you like (putting ZSH configs on /etc/skel of your templates for example) but once it’s set up it’s really solid. Having the windows named and color coded really helps me keep from crossing wires when stuff gets chaotic and I’m jumping around a lot.
It’s obviously MUCH worse at certain things such as CAD, but they’re still workable in it. HVMs can remedy this pretty easily but it’s not quite as seamless as the standard Qubes unfortunately but it’s progressed a LOT in a short amount of time so we’ll see what the future holds!
Great blog post, always nice to read about other people’s experiences. I was curious if you’d switch back to NixOS, but that’s not the case. Cubes OS looks interesting, I checked it out a few years ago. I should give it another look.
QubeOS has quite a bit of issues to , unless it’s better now?
