wayland is inevitable. for the vms, this would take the form of a qubes compositor.
that said, ive used the gimp, watched movies, even toyed with video editing on a 6 year old laptop running qubes 3.2rc3. also played a bit with blender and it seems fine, but havent tried animating yet. if your primary purpose is art/media i would not use qubes. maybe its ok if thats 2d / light3d. i think video editing should be fine, but id be iffy about high res compositing. in the mean time, you can take a few ideas from qubes. i use vmware-fusion(virtualbox does not support nested virtualization) on my work computer, a macbookpro. all my work is done within virtual machines, most of which run linux. one runs os x, and i also have a vagrantbox of os x for development. all of them are generated with packer and controlled with ansible. theres a special vm called "canary" that gets all the usb devices. it would also be possible to make a network vm to further isolate os x. (you can download updates offline) another special vm is called "vault". the only difference is the script types into the target vm instead of paste, because you can use firejail to protect apps from reading each others keystrokes, by giving all the apps their own x server. clipboard and fileshare is disabled in all the VMs, but i still dont want different apps within a vm reading each others keystrokes. if your going this route, lookup sandbox for os x or firejail for linux. linux + kvm would be better than this vmware nonsense. i plan on trying that with fedora 25. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/dea94998-5cc4-4635-8760-f08b5c2174cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
