Subj : Re: Computer operating system of choice?
To   : boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 19:41:21

  Re: Re: Computer operating system of choice?
  By: boraxman to Greenlfc on Tue Feb 08 2022 02:22 pm

 > Good point, I assumed people would explain their choice.  It is the reasonin
 > I find more interesting than the choice itself.  Why people follow a mainstr
 > choice isn't interesting, it is why people go for alternatives that is.  I
 > figured people that use BBS's are those seeking something different.  I brie
 > looked at Qubes, and it seems interesting, though I don't think I fully grok
 > yet.

The idea behind Qubes is that, internally, it keeps everything separated.

For example, you may have a virtual environment for your job, in which you keep
all your job files, your job web browser and your job accounting sostfware.
Then you may have another virtual environment you use for watching My Little
Pony cartoons and which is full of My Little Pony videos, van art and whatever.
ANd then you may have a different environment you use for your online banking.

The idea is that if you download a My Little Pony video with malware, the
damage will be contained in your My Little Pony environment and won't damage
anything outside of the My Little Pony box.

What makes Qubes special is that all of this separation is made transparently
to the user. Applications are color coded, so when you launch the "blue
firefox" you need it is the "banking firefox", whereas the "green filebrowser"
is the "MLP file browser".

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