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You should check out Qubes OS. https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ All applications run inside a VM, and you set up different VMs for different
by jstanley 6y ago
You should check out Qubes OS. https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/
All applications run inside a VM, and you set up different VMs for different tasks. The windows are all composited onto one seamless desktop environment, with the colour of the window decorations telling you which VM it's in. You can copy and paste between the VMs with a special keyboard shortcut, and you can manually copy files between them as well, but otherwise they have no access to each other.
If you open some ransomware in one VM, it can't touch (or read, or know of the existence of) any of the data in other VMs.
- gentleman11 6y agoHow is usability? It’s a very appealing model but it sounds confusing
- vladvasiliu 6y agoThat's what I've been wondering too, especially now when more and more applications are starting to use hardware graphics acceleration.
- aj3 6y agoIt's great at what it does. Much more useful than I expected, feels more thought out than some commercial alternatives. XEN Virtualization with their custom X-passthrough driver is super fast as well. No hardware acceleration of course, but it didn't feel choppy at all. As long as you have enough RAM (I'd say 16GB at least), it works pretty much like bare metal (even though there are several VMs running in background at all times for network, fw, usb, etc), way faster than Spice, VNC, RDP or Virtualbox (talking about UI not number crunching).
- jstanley 6y agoI used it briefly but found interacting with weird USB devices (mainly Arduino and RTL-SDR) slightly too annoying.