I have enjoyed using Qubes in the past, it's definitely a cool feeling having everything controllable via an abstraction that its author probably wasn't designi

I have enjoyed using Qubes in the past, it's definitely a cool feeling having everything controllable via an abstraction that its author probably wasn't designing for. Feels powerful. But at the end of the day, those VM images, and any snapshots made, are opaque blobs of bits. Whatever shape they're in, you have nowhere to look to determine why they are the way they are--no recipe for recreating that state and sharing it with others (unless you want to share it ALL with others, and then only with others on the same architecture). You've got a lot of control, but only over these chunks of whatever happened to be there at that time. You're sort of trapped in one dimension. You can use snapshots to move backwards and forwards in time, but if the following paths don't lead to the same system state in some subtle way you're not going to know about the difference: path one: > add foo | add bar | remove foo path two: > add bar