I tried Qubes for a while a year and a half ago but at the time it felt too much like a paradigm shift for me, and I didn't like the idea of running a redhat ba

I tried Qubes for a while a year and a half ago but at the time it felt too much like a paradigm shift for me, and I didn't like the idea of running a redhat based dom0 with a lot of packages, it felt a little too much turn-key. I then decided to try to put something together from scratch to understand it better, so I ended up rolling my own debian/virtualbox/pfSense/i3 environment, link in my profile to my blog describing how I set things up. This of course is for sure NOT as secure as Qubes, but for basic browsing and development (no 3d/gaming) seems good enough for me, it also was fun putting it together and has been working fairly well over the year or so I have been running it. This said I am glad Qubes development is ongoing and will likely look into running it again at some point.