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QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system
I've been using Qubes for the past 2 years while going to school, and I found it really fun and helpful. A lot of professors had me download random closed source software from random websites during the pandemic, and it was easier to download it to a VM than to convince them about Free Software. More than that though it's been really helpful just for my own workflow. I can hit a keybind and start working from essentially a fresh linux install. It's easier to stay on task when each VM is designed to only do one kind of task. It's also nice having debian, fedora, windows, kali, and whonix all easily accessible on the same machine.
The main sticking point for me is that Qubes is reasonably secure from _myself_. I make mistakes. I first started using linux with an Ubuntu install that I broke a year later because I accidentally added in a space when typing `rm -rf ~/Arduino` which made it `rm -rf ~ /Arduino`. On Qubes I can `sudo rm -rf /` on the VM I'm using right now and not break a sweat. I have a keybind to spawn a disposable "airgapped" VM to deal with sensitive or untrusted data, and it helps knowing that even if I mess up with whatever I'm doing, the VM will keep everything reasonably contained.
Some cool things that Qubes has outside of just VMs are its features enabled by the communication between VMs. Notable ones are Split GPG (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/split-gpg/) which let you use a VM as if it were a smartcard for GPG and Split SSH (https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs...) which let you isolate your private SSH keys from your VM running your SSH client.
There are some sticking points around Qubes. For instance, I use Tailscale to connect my computers to each other from anywhere. Tailscale's install scripts add their keys to my VM's package manager for updates and installs. The proper way to do this in Qubes is to clone a TemplateVM, run Tailscale's install script, update, install, and then base an AppVM off of it. But that creates an entire new OS taking up storage and requiring updates. You can hack a way around this in an AppVM which saves a considerable amount of space, but it takes a lot of upfront time to do and requires you to manually update it.
Another sticking point is hardware acceleration. The desktop environment has access to hardware acceleration, so it runs fine, but opening videos in AppVMs is all software decoded. I'm on a Thinkpad T580 and it can run 1080p videos, but the fans turn on and can't do 4K. When I want to game or do something GPU heavy I either stream from my tower or completely switch over.
Overall, I'm really happy with Qubes and I'm planning to stick with it on my laptops.
- Installing Windows 10 as a Qube. The install crashes at 10% in the "Getting files ready for installation" stage
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GPU passthrough on Qubes?
I can't speak to 17+ GPUs - but have successfully passed through a single high-end GPU for gaming via following these instructions: https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/customization/gaming-hvm.md
- Qubes OS new templates?
- Installer crashes at last moment ?
- Dual-booting Qubes and a Debian distro?
- ArchQubes?
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Windows 7, 10, or 11 vm in Qubes-Os
Yes its possible. But check here under "Audio Support", also says at the bottom that windows 7, 10 & 11 are fully supported. As for how to install Windows, here. And installing Windows 11 by disabling the TPM check: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/windows-11-in-qubes/6759/8.
- ISO download for HVM failing on all VMs
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VPN Killswitch?
Follow this guide https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/configuration/vpn.md
bitmap-fonts
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Looking for good font options for a low-resolution, 320x240 screen
Here's a list of suitable ones. I've used leggie for things like this.
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Could someone ELI5 this command for installing fonts ?
git clone https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts.git cd bitmap-fonts sudo cp -avr bitmap/ /usr/share/fonts xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/bitmap fc-cache -fv
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Have seen a couple pages likely inspired by my original. Comes with accompanying Firefox theme.
It’s likely I used the bitmap font ‘proggy’. Here’s a link to a number of very similar bitmap fonts I use frequently across all projects, as well as programming. They’re all monospaced of course. https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
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terminator not showing .pcf or .bdf fonts?
so i'm experimenting with linux a bit before i eventually end up switching over to it sometime in the future, so i installed arch on a VM to look around. I installed terminator as my terminal of choice (or the choice of a guide i was watching), and wanted to mess around with fonts, eventually stumbling on bitmap fonts. I decided to install a repo of them here , and followed the terminal commands they showed exactly. from what i can tell all of the fonts are correctly installed because i can see them using fc-list. Upon going into the terminator preference menu, it appears none of the fonts are visible, which i can only assume to be caused by the fact that all of the fonts are .pcf or .bdf, instead of something like .ttf or .otf, which i appear to be able to install. Is there some way to enable these fonts inside of the menu, or is there a way to convert them to a usable format? I dont really have a problem switching terminals or the like if that ends up fixing it since im not necessarily attached to this one yet. TIA.
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some fonts (e.g. BDF) only show up in a few plces
On my previous system running ubuntu I had no problem with them so I believe the fonts themselves are fine. I obtained the fonts from this repo nd also installed via package manager with same result.
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Show HN: Coding Font – find your true love of coding fonts
Take a look at the selection here: https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
- Tecate/bitmap-fonts: Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use
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[bspwm] Ready for the Hunt .
It's the default bitmap font since I didn't add any font in my xresources but you can get more of the bitmaps here
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| Looking for a bitmap icon font larger than Siji
You might find this repository interesting: bitmap-fonts
What are some alternatives?
Qubes-vpn-support - VPN configuration in Qubes OS
dwm - Patches and config used to setup dwm
proton-bridge - Proton Mail Bridge application
Cozette - A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜
qubes-app-split-browser - Tor Browser (or Firefox) in a Qubes OS disposable, with persistent bookmarks and login credentials
fontforge - Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
qubes-windows-tools-cross - Qubes Windows Tools build with mingw, wine and qubes-builder
comic-mono-font - A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
qubes-issues - The Qubes OS Project issue tracker
Ligaturizer - Programming Fonts with Ligatures added (& a script to add them to other fonts)
qubes-tunnel - Integration of vpn tunnels for Qubes OS
dotfiles - :computer: my ricing configs.