1. Never heard of Qubes before 2. Ashamed to admit I have never heard of it before 3. Just hit the 10 minute mark and now need to spend the rest of this week wiping out a xeon machine and going down the rabbit hole. Thanks for ruining my schedule for the rest of the week! HAHAHA

I've been using Qubes for around 2-3 years now. Not exclusively, but I missed it a lot when I was running something else. I can't really describe it, but it's the only OS where I actually feel like I'm in complete control of my computer and the applications running on it, not that they're controlling me and using my machine however they like. I'm very happy to see someone with a following giving it some more coverage! A couple of things came to mind which you didn't touch on though, so I thought I'd add a quick comment: 1. You can manually assign bits of physical hardware to individual VMs (i.e. graphics cards, or USB controllers) - I do this to give my Windows 10 gaming VM direct access to the GPU and get (almost) native performance in most games. 2. You kind of touched on it, but didn't outright mention that you can keep a VM completely isolated from the network if you like, so you can use it basically as an air-gapped machine to store your password vault or bitcoin wallets, etc. You can easily copy and paste passwords out of your offline VM (or between any VM) with a special shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-C/V)

"I use Linux." "Oh, yeah? Which version?" "Yes."

Wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to explain all of this to us.

nice video, not like other distro reviewer that just seems clueless when using this distro and make me confused, you explain how this distro works really well, and makes me interested trying qubes

The perfect OS, this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Just subscribed to this channel.

The power of open source. Thanks for such a simple and on point explanation about Qube OS. Will certainly try it because I think its the answer to so many privacy questions.

This is my first time knowing Qubes, soon I'll use this OS for the new PC. Really concise and good introduction video man!

Great overview of Qubes. What you said at 24:01 is so accurate! The idea of privacy & security are not absolute. The reality is often misunderstood & undermined by tools/apps that give a perception of anonymity. I can assure you: nothing you do on an internet connection is beyond reach. Full Disk Encryption, multi-layered encryption containers, long & complex passwords, MFA, etc. (which I use & recommend) are still vulnerable. The best you can do is make your data exceedingly difficult to exploitation. Unless the reward of such effort will bear fruit attackers will move to another target.

Been using for a year and really love it. Never going back. Buying a 32gb RAM Dell XPS 13 soon to have a LOT of VMs open at the same time because I'm a hardcore user

WOW, Thank you. Found out about Qubes on a feed on secure OS, I was hoping to using it but was not sure what it was capable of. Your video is excellent it gave me a very clear understanding of its setup and what it is capable of with out me having to go through weeks of rebuilds. I have a few hardware VM and storage servers at home and wanted to figure out how to rebuild an old system for VM for training on Linux and appliances as well as windows this is a totally awesome OS build for quick Virtual lab builds and tear downs in a single Box. THANKS Again...

Thanks, heard about qubes for a while now but this is the first time I got a feel for its practical usability. Like others said, it seems a lot like docker like containerization applied to a personal computing environment. Nice. Always felt slightly annoyed I had to install some work related stuff on my personal (windows) machine and this seems like an elegant solution (been using ‘heavy’ VMs for the same reason, but this is easier maintenance-wise for not having to update each VM separately)

Loved this short and informative video. Time to learn Qubes!

Im absolutely in love with the concept 💗 will switch to it as my main for some time and see how things work out.. the awesome documentation really tells everything how much those guys and gurls are invested in the project!

I like how detailed you are when doing your demonstration. You're very clear and pedagogical. And you enunciate and pronounce your words clearly without a lot of uhms and ahs, which actually isn't always the case with all youtubers. Great work!

This is on the edge of my understanding but I feel this is really powerful stuff just from this brief overview. Thanks for sharing.

This is a fantastic description of Qubes. Much appreciated.

Definitely gonna add this to my list of must try linux distributions...amazing content for the channel 100%! Nice 1

Watching the news last night ... need to give Qubes a try.

This is mind blowing

nice video, thanks for sharing. very interesting and reminds me of Kubernetes and Container technology with those templates and disposable vm's

Amazing explanation of Qubes. Thanks!

Dom0 arigato for explaining this interesting OS. I had wondered for a while if there are any 'pure' virtualization or docker container like OS.

It would be neat to see a less-tinfoil-hat-y hypervisor-centric OS like this. An ordinary-looking Linux distro that just happens to have a simple way to install applications into a virtual machine and x11-forward it your main desktop. I could see a large market of intermediate to advanced level users that would want something like that.

Freaaking amazing implementation of virtualization in typical desktop 'workflow' !

This was very helpful, thank you.

Very Good Explanation! Thanks!

Now I know what to do with the laptop from my kitchen window.. - it's going to have Qubes on it. Thank you, nice video / presentation!

Thanks, great introduction.

Great video! I didn't use QubesOS or Fedora before, so I have a few questions about the customized desktop environment (looks a bit like cinnamon). Is it possible to customize it in the settings or do you need extra plug-ins (e.g. for the temperature display) or desktop themes and if yes, which ones did u use? It's looking pretty clean and I like it a lot! Thanks in advance and have a good one. Greetings

Thank you so much, friend i liked the way that you explained everything. I really would like to know how did you installed Papirus Icon Theme on Qubes OS, I've been training but i couldn't. Please help me.

Good job on the video!

An excellent video which explains a lot. Two questions are the files you keep encrypted by default or do you need to install a seperate application. Also, is there a password manager that you can use that will work on the VM's?

Thank you is not enough you saved a lot of my time

I find Qubes very interesting, and I love the theory behind it. I can see it being incredibly useful as a testing platform, and I think I've got to have a go at that soon. Is there a possibility to do hardware passthrough to VMs, like passing a dedicated GPU, a disk or something like that?

This video helped me understand how the Qubes even worked and the general philosophy behind the system. It gets confusing trying to understand the difference between a Template, a DVM, a Disposable, AppVM. I think they should really update their terminology even further lol DisposableVM and Disposable Templates are so easy to mix up.

Would be fun to make a cyberlab/pentesting/gaming out of this (maybe I can play my Steam games somewhere inside a Windows 10 template while doing a GPU passthrough).

Nice, very nice. Thank you !!

How did you achieve this clean look? I mean those nice window frames. Is there full dark theme support?

Nice explanation. It has a design that looks very useful for crypto & stock exchanges and banking as mentioned

Great video thanks.

Great video

Thank you very much !

Tried QubeOS 3.X some years ago. It's an interesting concept, but steep learning curve to get going. Especially when you want to create a new template. Wondering if it would be safe enough to use as sandboxes for Sec Operations.

I've been looking at Qubes for a while but i'm scared to make the jump and install it because i'm not as confident as i'd like to be with Linux. Ideally i'd like to install windows on Qubes and use that as my main machine but i'm not sure how easy that is to do. And i'm not sure how compatible it is with gaming. There's also not a lot beginner friendly tutorials out there about how to use it.

Dorian, there is no Qubes guide series. I think is good idea to make it especially when times are not secure lasy years and hacking is everywhere. I like Qubes very much, thank You. ✌️

The apps and how they are segregated and those various features make sense. What is unclear to me is the network configuration. For your firewall or lets say you want to use a VPN and push all internet connected apps (VMs that have an assigned NW interface), is additional configuration needed or is this handled somehow by the hypervisor itself? Another strange question...if you wish to run a VM (for the purpose of getting other OS features), you are essentially running a VM within a VM, which is a little odd if you ask me, but just thought that was a bit funny.

Great! Thanks!

@7:28 "You can transfer things (files) from one machine to the other. You just right-click..." Understood. But can you move or copy files, via a terminal session, from one VM to different VM? Or is this strictly a GUI feature? Excellent tutorial, by the way.

AWESOME!

do you have a vid on download? not very tech savvy but id love to get this going

I would like to make the full switch to Linux. Question is, can Windows 10 Pro be run in the VM within Qubes? If so, then that is a win-win

This OS should be just called Inception

Good to know but can you run other linux Distro's in v-mode?

Any advice on which processor and MoB to buy ????

It looks like impossible to install latest Qubes 4.1.0 to QEMU/KVM. It does strange "freeze out" randomly during install. Sometimes i can not even reach the language selection screen. Sometimes i can pass it through but on the partitioning screen will be freeze the whole installation process. I was trying remove usb mouse and using laptop's built-in mousepad. Also was trying booting from CDROM and trying all available Hard Drive options. VirtIO USB IDE SATA SCSI. Also i was trying with larger sizes: first 40GB then 50GB 55GB and 60GB. Also i was re-downloading the .iso as might be corrupted for first attempt...No luck. I was installing R4.04-x86_64 but it was also not easy. Default partitioning does not work only if i did custom partitioning. But at least could install it. But latest version always failed.. Nested virtualization enabled but IMMOU error can not eliminate....Is that could causing this issue? Or What?

Thank you 🙂

is it possible to have 2 nvme on a laptop, one for qubes and one for windows?

Thanks for the video, how Tails compare to Qubes. Which one is better in terms of security?

how to setup vpn+tor+vpn. and how to go to KZfaq through Tor so that Google does not swear that it registered suspicious traffic and did not offer to pass the captcha?

How do you make gaming template (windows 10 with GPU passed through)

How did you get the task bar on the bottom?

Are there any plans for a compatible Raspberry Pi version in the near future?

Interesting idea I guess but is it really effective if all of your internet traffic is being routed through the same gateway?

I like your tutorial on Qubes os it has a lot of good info. could you please make a KZfaq on qubes with secondary storage.

Can you show us how to install and run Qubes OS on Windows Hyper-V?

1. Do you run it natively on your machine as main OS or through a virtual machine 2. Can i use macbook pro and run it through a virtual machine? 3. What about ip addresses within one secure machine created within qubes os ? Do you still need vpn within that environment or can you just work within the machine securely without worry about ip? 4. Can you use windows with full gaming performance within one of the machines without issues

Can you eventually tell me why no other application except the "Files" application shows up in any Domain that it created from a fresh usb install? Do you know a workaround? - i cannot even pick something else in the application manager. And im like new to qubes.

So can you you run Windows too in a cube VM?

Hi!! Do you know if it is possible to run mac os on qubes os??

The biggest flaw I see with this is that even when the VM started on the fly is shut down there is still trace on the HD....seems to be a bit of a moo point if you just want to open a VM for temporary disposable work....when Dorian says it will be gone from your machine it isn't really unless you use other software to erase what ever it is that reamained from the VM session...hmmm...to me a deffo flaw...

so qubes is not a operating system in it self (like windows) but more like a virtual machine operater like virtualbox or VMware??

My research on Qubes OS has told me that you cannot run it on just any computer. The website with the list of motherboards is very complicated. Would you please identify a motherboard and/or other components needed to build such a computer that I can purchase from: Best Buy, Micro Center or New Egg as of April 2021?

Why did they make the ISO file too big for a DVD ?

you will probsexplain this as i'm only halfway through the video but if I download this will keep my files that are already on my comp?

Dorian- what computer/laptop you using? I understand you must use a minimum of a RYZEN 7, 16 gigs of ram with an SSD.

Really great, informative video, thank you! 🙏🏻 What hardware are you running Qubes on, please?

Love the concept but I think I'm not paranoid enough. Also the compatibility list make it hard to install on many hardware.

Reminds me of App-V for Windows 7

Would be cool to see a snowden level balls to wall type example. Like try booting Tails OS with a persistent flashdrive, then installing a VM running cubes in that.

Reminds me of ProxMox , but with a GUI

Each Broswer VM should have its own IP address?

Have I read this wrong but is it meant to run on AMD processors ? Is there any problems with Intell processors ?

Cool

Inception of Vms !!

I didn't find this confusing. It's the OS that Ed Snowden uses. More than I'll ever need (until I have a government job) 😜

Hi there, which is better? Qubes with whonix or virtualbox with whonix?

Would this perform reasonably quickly on a dual-core machine? Or do you really need a quad-core? I have 16 GB system memory, so CPUs my only real bottleneck. Well... and graphics; only integrated. But I don't do anything graphically intensive anyway.

I didn't have a tinfoil hat handy, but I am quickly manufacturing one. I hope aluminium foil will make a satisfactory replacement.

Very interesting. This looks like an ideal system to test software and not end up with all the leftovers. It seems quite snappy as well. Could you also disclose the hardware you're running it on?

Can i ran window on it as well?

I think this distro is not for everyone, it seems to me that because of the virtual machine it uses more resources than normal, right?

Awesome review, can you also do a Windows 10 install on Qubes. That would be great.

My only real complaint about Qubes is the difficulty of building a Qubes Desktop PC.

Isn't paranoid... I know that fucking aliens are watching me

For a common user like me, that the only concern I have is to avoid the obsessive ex husband that don't understand about computers(only a little about windows) from invading my things or stealing my data, I only need a good Linux with a fine disk cryptography 🤣 But for the ones that work with sensitive data(like industrial models) or other stuff like this, I think it is the most useful!!!!

Snowden runs this OS. If you want to be super secure then use Qubes.

Qubes vs tails which safer

Does it ever crash?

Can you run arma 3 on it ?