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0 pointsfsflover1y ago0 comments

Such OS should be more secure than Linux, yet it should be able to run practically all Linux apps (and ideally Windows apps, too). It should be FLOSS with a good UI and a serious developer team. Such OS exists: https://qubes-os.org. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough.

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hollerith1y ago· 1 in thread

I like Qubes, but it is just multiple Linux installs running in VMs. Also it depends on Xen and an X server, both of which are not long for this world.

fsfloverOP1y ago

> just multiple Linux installs

"Just" is doing a lot of work here. There is no OS more secure than Qubes, judging by the number and severity of Qubes security bulletins: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/qsb/.

You don't have to run Linux in Qubes. You can run OpenBSD [0], Windows [1] and more [2].

[0] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4551

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/windows/

[2] https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/packaged-mirage-firewall/32097 and https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/exotic-oses-which-i-tried-on-qu...

> Also it depends on Xen

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7051

> and an X server

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3366

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