Thank you for the interesting arguments. > I silo financial information (and banks also have security) so such a breach is extremely unlikely to be catastrophi

Thank you for the interesting arguments. > I silo financial information (and banks also have security) so such a breach is extremely unlikely to be catastrophic So you are doing manually what Qubes OS does automatically: security through compartmentalization. > The expectation is that it will cost me a couple weeks of my life as like an absolute worst case. This sounds quite reasonable but ignores privacy issues and issues with computer ownership with Windows; I guess you also don't care about that. I do agree that using Qubes wastes more of my time than your estimates; however it also, e.g., encourages 100% safe tinkering for those who like it, prevents potential upgrade downtime, enables easy backup and restore process and more. > I think security like this matters in places where the amount of financial gain for a breach is much much higher (concentrated stores of PII at a company with thousands of users for example) How about owning crypto?