I just installed openSUSE Tumbleweed with the hope of using it as my daily driver for the foreseeable future, and when the system finally booted up I got this feeling of cleanliness from it. No extra packages that I installed and then forgot about, no remnants of packages past, no mangled config files, no logs that haven’t been deleted in months, and no files stuffed in random directories that have been lost to history. It just felt really satisfying to finally have a clean slate after having just had my old distro slowly deteriorate and eventually go kaput on me (to be fair, it was my fault, I accumulated errors while tinkering with it over a period of months).
Does anyone get this feeling?
It’s picky. Also induces paranoia by constantly asking your attention to computer security. Normal tasks require us to not be constantly reminded we are living under surveillance, for example when you copy-paste something. Qubes is designed well, but it can’t hide this reality from you at the same time. For me it was definitely worth trying for some months, if only because of what I learned from it. I think it’s the future of computing to have a trusted hypervisor and expand it with subdued emulations. For my skill level it was not practical. It’s not a sinecure to configure well.
When I can afford a better computer, I’ll try it out!
I’ve actually tried it in VirtualBox, but only a bit.