[not_a_real_56]

I get the point of Qubes. What I am saying is that it doesn't work for my use case and if anyone had a better way of doing it. The solution of running every application inside a VM for security is nice, but also extremely resource intensive on CPU and RAM requirements and do not make the OS ideal for a laptop. Unless you have a pretty maxed out laptop in terms of specs.

While you could argue VM are more secure, other security tools like BSD Jails or containers could offer a similar level of security for a fraction of the resources that QubesOS uses.

And if I am really being honest, not many people need that level of security as the main goal of Qubes is to prevent a system compromise, but most people have cell phones, cloud accounts, and are getting their uses names and passwords leaked through security breaches all the time, something that Qubes cannot prevent.

[fsflover]

> The solution of running every application inside a VM

This is not how you're supposed to run Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#does-qubes-run-every-app-in-a-...

16 GB of RAM should be sufficient for a simple setup.

> other security tools like BSD Jails or containers could offer a similar level of security

Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39250975

[processunknown]

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

[not_a_real_56]

Thanks for the link, reading it now. :)

[Modified3019]

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.