I absolutely agree! I routinely run various engineering tools which are typically "distributed" (to put it generously) as massive "untar this and run some script as root -- up to you to resolve dependency hell", and qubes makes this amazingly clean.
I used to have such hesitation at installing such software and resort to horrible LXC hacks to try to keep some weak semblance of self-containedness and safety. Qubes is *so* much better, and since 3.2 with USB passthrough (and a couple local wrappers and patches I should really get around to upstreaming) even software which interfaces with external hardware tools are so very nice. Oh, you need to load some quite likely vulnerable kernel driver for this crappy oscilloscope? Sure! Go right ahead! Qubes is not only a security win, but IMHO genuinely a usability win too. -- 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/CABQWM_CP399KFmwa9DynvrLTN2C4GaE8XXWz%3D5nmd14p%3D0YmMw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
