Re: [qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread Franz
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:16 PM, mojosam wrote: > > As for security, imagine my surprise when my Linux desktop started > popping up malware ads, which ran quite happily in Wine. > > Precisely my concern! > > I will probably eventually create a Windows HVM and

[qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread bassmeister3000
> I will probably eventually create a Windows HVM and just run necessary stuff > in there. I didn't want to run an entire instance of Windows just to run the > Kindle app. There's a good chance you don't need to just for Kindle. I've run many applications in bare Wine, until I found good

[qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread mojosam
> As for security, imagine my surprise when my Linux desktop started popping up > malware ads, which ran quite happily in Wine. Precisely my concern! I will probably eventually create a Windows HVM and just run necessary stuff in there. I didn't want to run an entire instance of Windows just

[qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread bassmeister3000
> I was rather shocked to see that PlayOnLinux hogs 800 MB on my hard drive. I > guess there's support in there for just about every freaking service that any > Windows application might want. I had just assumed that that stuff would be > installed on an as-needed basis (Maybe standalone Wine

[qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 01/31/2017 02:24 PM, mojosam wrote: >> it does protect you from user errors. e.g.: >> you have some malicious pdf in a vm. >> if you have noting to open the pdf, you can't accidentally open it and >> corrupt your vm. > Isn't that the concept behind "attack surface"? If the code is there, >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-30 Thread Franz
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 2017-01-30 03:48 PM, mojosam wrote: > >> I am in the process of installing PlayOnLinux into my Fedora 24 >> template. Currently, my only use for it is the Kindle app. I suspect I'll >> find further need for it

[qubes-users] Re: Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-30 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 2017-01-30 03:48 PM, mojosam wrote: I am in the process of installing PlayOnLinux into my Fedora 24 template. Currently, my only use for it is the Kindle app. I suspect I'll find further need for it in the future. My original plan was to just use the Kindle app in one of my existing app