I’m trying to get into QubeOS. Coming from Graphene on phone and its compartmentalizations, I expect an easy transtition. But holy shit, theres like a qube for everything: usb qube, network qube, file manager qubem…etc.
I’m still learning but find it difficult, not because of its features (I like to tinker with things) but because my hardware cannot handle the OS. I have an intel i7 12th Gen with 40GB RAM laptop. It runs blazingly fast on other distros but really suffocating in QubeOS. By “suffocating”, i meant just playing a video in Firefox can cause problems. Moving the Firefox window around can freeze the system.
Those who managed to switch to it, what was your hardware (laptop, desktop?) and how long did it take you?
I really like QubeOS, its controls are amazing. But the hardware just couldnt handle it.
Tbh depending on your threat model you might be ok with just a regular os, flatpak sandboxing and an occasional vm. For example I have VMs for my dev projects, or for tools that I use seldomly but doesn’t trust like android tools. If I need I pass usb in (like if I want to flash phone with the android tools…) You will be much less limited but still have decent protection and those vms start fast. I have Fedora host with Fedora VMs and they start in like 10 seconds.