the most secure OS in the world.....I hate it

🔐💻 Dive into the World of Qubes OS - The Ultimate in Security, but a Setup Nightmare! 🔐💻

👉 In this video, we're exploring the most secure operating system on the planet - Qubes OS. Yes, it's incredibly secure, but wait until you see what it takes to set it up! Join me as I venture through the installation process, experiment with running Windows, and share my candid thoughts on whether Qubes OS is practical for everyday users.

🌐 What's Inside:

-Intro to Qubes OS: Uncover the unique features of Qubes OS and why it's considered ultra-secure.
-Installation Guide: Step-by-step walkthrough of installing Qubes on a virtual machine (and why you should ideally use physical hardware).
-Windows Installation in Qubes: Insights into the process and challenges of running Windows within Qubes OS.
-Final Thoughts: My personal take on the practicality and user-friendliness of Qubes OS.

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0:00 ⏩ Intro
1:00 ⏩ What is Qubes OS?
3:55 ⏩ How Qubes works - App Qubes
5:40 ⏩ Service Qubes
7:41 ⏩ Qubes OS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
9:28 ⏩ STEP 1 - Qubes OS Install - Download Qubes
10:35 ⏩ STEP 2 - Virtual Machine Setup
13:33 ⏩ STEP 2 - Physical Machine Setup
15:46 ⏩ STEP 3 - Installing Qubes OS
17:17 ⏩ LINUX QUIZ CHALLENGE!!
18:42 ⏩ STEP 4 - Initial Qubes Configuration

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[NetworkChuck]

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 ⏩ Intro
1:00 ⏩ What is Qubes OS?
3:55 ⏩ How Qubes works - App Qubes
5:40 ⏩ Service Qubes
7:41 ⏩ Qubes OS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
9:28 ⏩ STEP 1 - Qubes OS Install - Download Qubes
10:35 ⏩ STEP 2 - Virtual Machine Setup
13:33 ⏩ STEP 2 - Physical Machine Setup
15:46 ⏩ STEP 3 - Installing Qubes OS
17:17 ⏩ LINUX QUIZ CHALLENGE!!
18:42 ⏩ STEP 4 - Initial Qubes Configuration

[RowanHawkins]

One useful analogy that I explain to people about security. You basically have a slider. At one end is secure and at the other end is usable and your risk tolerance sets the slider position.

[mydogsbutler]

One of the reasons why they advise against using nested virtualization is because it negates some of the privacy benefits of Qubes. The Virtualized networking in Qubes is IMO it's best feature. The firewall isn't an add-on to the OS like other OSes but rather an integrated feature like Tails. You can completely control what packets leave your computer, choose what avenues they take (vpns, tor, proxy chains, et)., Create combinations. Whitelist/blacklist ips and apps. If you throw Qubes on a normal OS and virtualize it, the host OS will leak packets. If virtualized on Windows 11 things are even worse as Windows has practically become a keylogger.

[JustAnotherAlchemist]

I drank the QubesOS Cool Aid for a few months, but I got out of it. It's important to understand that, like all security models, this system is only able to protect you from the specific threat model it was designed for. In particular, QubesOS was designed to protect from information leaks caused by software flaws.

[gzoechi]

I used it for about 4 years as my main OS for my development machine with Debian in the VMs. I don't have too high security requirements, but I like the compartmentalization. There wasn't anything to hate in my opinion. It worked really well all the time - until recently. An update broke my install and I wasn't able to repair it. I tried NixOS, as I planned for a while, and I'm hooked and switched away from Qubes. Not as secure, but I can't resist the declarative configuration.

[brochard]

Too bad you missed the official release of QubesOS 4.2, it has a lot of improvements to the GUI

[pav]

Ngl, the idea of "Why don't we just run each app in its own little sandbox" crossed my mind several times, but to see an OS spin up a whole XEN VM for it... Wow. Cool concept, and fact that they got it so far already.

[justicelegends]

I'm kinda more surprised to see this has a gui and a desktop environment😅

[andmicbro]

Based on the title I was expecting an OS so locked down it was painful to just use. I know security does not equal usability.

But Qubes OS looks awesome! As soon as you started spinning up VMs on the fly my mind was blown at how cool that was! There are some obvious drawbacks, like needing an ungodly amount of RAM for the more stuff you throw at it, but I'm sitting over here thinking, "I could actually daily drive this and it wouldn't be that bad!

Realistically, I wouldn't daily it, just have some fun, and be aware if I ever need something crazy secure, I know the OS to go to. But this is very usable! Which goes to show, security, even really good security, doesn't always need to burn usability to the ground to be effective.

[JorneDeSmedt]

Rufus is good, but have you tried Ventoy?
It lets you create a bootable usb once, and then you can just drop iso's onto it, letting you select the right one through the bootloader.

[Dan-tqtu]

Nothing is cooler than running windows 10, 11, Mac, Kali, Debian, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu, & Arch all right next to each other in Qubes! I hope you will give 4.2 another chance! If you're committed to moving on to something else perhaps you would consider creating some content for the Xen hypervisor? Thanks for another informative video chuck! Looking forward to more!

[jdbertel]

After about a week, qubes just works for me. Yes it takes some tweaking. But honestly I don't see how I could go back to a 'normal' system

[raskolnikov]

Small correction! During the installation, a window from sys-whonix popped up asking you to connect/configure a tor connection.

You say that it's asking if the whole system should be torified, but that's not what the prompt is doing. It's just asking whether sys-whonix should connect directly to the tor network, or if it needs to have a bridge configured. In fact, due to the nature of QubesOS, sys-whonix wouldn't be able to make that kind've system-wide change even if it wanted to.

[paulchatel]

I love Qubes. Sure there is a steep learning curve but once you got used to it it's hard to go back to a regular OS. Having an hypervisor running as the main OS on your computer allows for a lot of things, it goes beyond security. I keep using it not because I have to for security, but because I really love it.

[vkfbab]

I use Qubes OS as my daily driver. Good points are that i am so much faster than everyone i work with at spinning up test VMs. My Facebook etc is not visible in my work etc. Also if i share my screen in slack Qubes only makes windows visible in the qube that slack is executing in. The strict networking is great for testing our networking product. The things that suck are i have a new laptop and have been running the beta version with a few quirks. I sometimes find the USB camera can disconnect meaning i have to add remove the software device to the qube. Audio can sometimes be a little weird. However i do think it's awesome. I also have Windows and FreeBSD qubes up and running as well

[sysadmin-info]

Qubes OS was invented by my compatriot Joanna Rutkowska. So, one more reason to be proud. And by the way you should focus on the newest version and Qubes OS should be installed on hardware that is supported, what was written a long time ago on their website. I know about this OS since it has been released. I really like it.

[therealOri_]

I got a score of 100 points! (out of 120)

The only question I didn't get was with Linux containerization. (Something I haven't messed with or learned about yet.)

[CodyDaig]

Qubes runs so much better on physical hardware instead of in a VM. Much faster. I love it, but I use too many apps that don’t support linux so I’ve had to switch back.

[tomast.]

Pleasantly surprised to see this OS in your channel. Been following Invisible Things Lab like eternity, a talented team.

[TheGamerGuy]

Found your channel recently (The video about Tails OS and the Darkweb) loving the content so far my man. Happy holidays.