On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:08:56 PM UTC-4, steve.coleman wrote: > On 03/22/18 21:25, cooloutac wrote: > > Well Steve it worked. after formatting the usb to ext, changing ownership > > of it to user, and using a non disposable template browser. I was able to > > download the 4.4gb iso to it. > > > > Still not something the avg user would know how to do, but Qubes is no > > longer aimed at the average user it seems. Your solution was simple enough > > for me at least. > > > > So Thank you again. > > Glad you got it to work. I've had days like that. Like the time my > machine crashed and the Qubes DVD image was larger than would fit on a > single layer DVD. I didn't have a dual-layer drive and no extra USB > bootable thumb-drives to put it on. > > I'm not sure that Qubes was ever "designed" for the casual user. One has > to be dedicated enough to computer security to go through the extra > effort to keep up with the day to day issues. I'm hoping that will > correct itself going forward. I run 4.0-r4 at work and 3.2 at home > because its easier for the family. > > In my book it is completely worth the effort, as I use it both at work > and at home as my only desktop, but I have yet to meet anyone at work > that is as paranoid (or insane?) enough to run it. How many people do > you know that have "SpySlide" installed on _all_ their mobile devices? > (https://www.spy-fy.com/) If its got a camera, it is blind, until I want > it not to be. The microphone though is a harder problem...
Well I felt like 3.2 was though. Qubes kept getting more user friendly, but I guess that peaked with 3.2. My mother uses Qubes no problem and the only time she ever has to use a terminal command is if she accidentally shuts down the sys-usb instead of restarting it lol. -- 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/2b86337f-919c-433b-93c9-ef6f93fccc3d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
