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I run GNOME/Wayland on my host and do 100% of my computing inside fully-virtualized VMs running xfce, an actually useful desktop environment. In this way, GNOME
by soulofmischief 6y ago
I run GNOME/Wayland on my host and do 100% of my computing inside fully-virtualized VMs running xfce, an actually useful desktop environment. In this way, GNOME 3 actually excels because it's completely void of features and is thus mostly invisible.
- jl6 6y agoOut of interest are you doing this using Qubes? And why?
- soulofmischief 6y agoI used to, but my requirements evolved out of Qubes and I ended up replicating most of the Qubes environment over KVM.
- infokiller 6y agoAre you using alternatives to Qubes tools such as the secure clipboard (qvm-copy-to-vm), or just using a lower security setup?
- soulofmischief 6y agoI have some of my own tooling in place, for example with secure clipboard, I have disabled clipboard sharing between VMs and instead wrote host-level ssh+xclip scripts which I hotkeyed.
- forgotpwd16 6y agoWhy do that rather just run Xfce?
- carlhjerpe 6y ago* Company image * Snapshots * Portability * Isolation Just a few things i could come up with as valid reasons someone would want to do this.
- soulofmischief 6y agoAll of the things sister comment listed and more. * Compartmentalization * Layered defense * Windows is not allowed to touch my bare metal * Having development images for work, play, etc. * Easy migration * Configuring multiple separate environments from one control node * Accessing my virtual machines over the wire using QEMU on my laptops * Being able to take a system crash without losing other running contexts. * Maintaining host-level logical volume management and snapshots while guests retain a simplified partioning layout, with separate images for easy migration of `/home` and `/usr/local` * Advanced firewall configurations etc.