How does that protect against ransomware?

To be fair the vast, vast majority of exploitation that we see (especially in the news) comes from sub-par security setups and poor training/architecture. That’s no even going into security monitoring which most companies don’t or barely have.

Zero days account for very small amount of exploitation in comparison and by definition are unpatched so I think the commenter was right to point out the basics.

Qubes OS should protect you even from unknown vulnerabilities as long as you use its compartmentalization approach. Works for me (or so I hope).

OK. You've lost me.

And it is so too that “just deserts” are rarely desserts at all.

Or don't play games that behave indistinguishably from ransomware.