Qubes OS Review | Windows Integration

In this video, I go over the complete review of Qubes OS and show the Windows integration attempts. I also give a complete overview of Qubes OS after spending about 10 hours on the platform.

[RickySupriyadi]

after major updates I let it run 24/7, never turn it off, and so... I spent 2 days for installing printer, spent 3 days configuring display /appearance for 4k monitor, and tweaking configuring and learning for many days... it runs 24/7, and one day I need to reboot... then I realize I forgot password for my drive I do remember my user name pass... but not my drive pass since I only use drive password 2 times... and so I cried my wife ask me why, but I just silent...

[gwgux]

This reminds me of a universal truth: Security and convenience are mutually exclusive. You have either have high security or you can have ease of use. You cannot have both. Most solutions are somewhere in the middle.

[Cyanwasserstoff]

In my opinion the idea behind Qubes is something meant for the future, where you are able on a very minimalistic operating system to run applications in their own enviromental box (Windows 10, MacOS, Linux Distrobutions), for each application their own box. The hardware is organized in the system behind everything and it would be assigned to the used box for the application running.


Qubes may not be for the now, but the idea behind is something that might be the future of all systems.

[MegaManNeo]

I came across Cubes like two years ago, I was similarly interested in it like you but when I figured what headaches one had to go through - let alone the poor to non existent gaming possibility, I dropped it from my list.
Glad to see you went through all that just for us though! :D

Finally had the chance to order a RX5700 Pulse myself the day before yesterday, I actually consider to do either gpu-passthrough or a multiseat setup which is possible thanks to how Xorg handles multiple screens and input devices.
For someone like me who really likes to do LAN parties with his buddies, this sounds real helpful.

[SabiazothPsyche]

Thanks for the information that your time and effort provides for us. 👍

[pefu]

I came here in 2020 while searching for videos mentioning Qubes OS. This way I came accross this channel and subscribed. I am using Linux as my "daily driver" OS since 1994, when I switched to it coming from SCO Unix (if someone still remembers). In May 2019 I spend some time (a weekend or so) with Qubes OS 4.0.1 which I installed on separate SSD. At that time I had "only" 8 GB of RAM in my notebook computer. Probably because of that I lost my patience with Qubes-OS. After finishing reading the book "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden I decided to give Qubes OS another try this year and installed an additional 8 GB ram module.

[Spanner_Man]

Thanks for taking the time. One good use case for Qubes OS (from what I have seen) would be virus inspections. As everything is isolated it would make the perfect test bench for it. Indeed a normal VM might be able to do it but to be 100% safe I think Qubes OS would isolate the test enviroment correctly.

[Karter]

Every couple of years I check to see if Qubes is ready for me yet. I can't wait until they are.

[Mr._.]

Chris why don't you make a video about FreeBSD? It would be great
thank you for your awesome works

[ChrisBensch]

The script "qubes-windows-qvm-create" thing was successful for me on 4.0.3. However, there was a small issue that took me a while to figure out. When it begins to install Qubes Tools for Windows, it initially failed and wouldn't finish no matter what I tried. I eventually realized that my Windows 7 ISO hadn't been updated to the current patch level. I used "wsusoffline" from an ISO image to update my Win7 manually. Once it had all the updates, the script worked perfect and I have a near perfect Win7 seemless template, AppVMs run pretty damn well.

[rodrigoroaduterte]

Thank you very much. This saved me a ton of time.

[j.n.]

Bummer to hear. After watching a couple videos on the capabilities of Qubes and looking through its website, I was considering installing it on my laptop. As of its latest release of Jan. 2019 and it still seems that selection of hardware and software integration is a major obstacle for even advanced users. I really want the security of Qubes. What other security alternatives can you recommend ?

[DSTechMedia]

I spent hours trying to get this to work on a Dell Precision Xeon machine for my own review of Qubes, and I couldn't get it to play with my NIC. My NIC isn't even that new, nothing about this system was new, but it is a beefy machine I tried multiple builds, all failed. I recorded the intro and even setup my graphics, but no luck. I was excited to do that review too. You did a good job, you always beat me to the same ideas lol.

[mynamesaretakenwtf]

I’ve never touched Qubes, but it’s always been my understanding that Qubes is a security OS for a very specific need. I’m not sure what, but the idea that it’s all VMs in and of itself is not a good use of resources for day to day and has mostly been replaced by containers for those that need the core functionality minus the over the top security. Good on you for trying it though!

[katrinabryce]

Would Windows Server with Remote Apps and FreeRDP work for getting seamless mode?
Or apparently you can do it in desktop versions of Windows with a registry hack.

[freddymercury]

So is the best thing if you wanna use windows securely is to have a linux laptop with a VirtualBox virtual machine running windows??

[ramidaoud]

Will windows 10 integrate in the future?

[fuseteam]

now i wonder how well Nitrux and VMetal works

[PenguinRevolution]

Qubes is a rather interesting animal. It's a great operating system, but for most people it's just not practical. Most standard users would get confused by it. If privacy is what you are worried about there are other ways to configure your current Linux OS and applications for privacy that are much more user friendly then Qubes.

[ViniciusProvenzano]

Only seamless integration working well today in the market is Parallels for Mac, as far as I know.