Re: Q menu cleanup ideas (was Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?)

2019-03-30 Thread one7two99
Hello, regarding the topic how to clean up the Qubes Menu if you use lots of templates, maybe my "poor man's" show/hide-script can help. I am using this to hide templates or AppVMs which I don't use very often or which I only use as base templates. (All my AppVMs use custom build templates,

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-25 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/4/19 8:23 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/03/2019 1.40 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: [...] You can also take this a step further and make a snapshot of the dom0 root volume before updating. With the default Qubes config this is a quick process

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread airelemental
Mar 4, 2019, 12:03 PM by brendan.h...@gmail.com: > My recommendations, incorporating some other previous recommendations. > > 0) After install, clone the baseline templates, then re-point all the > non-standalone VMs to the clones. Update the clones regularly. > ... > 4) Keep a list of all

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread cooloutac
I also don't do anything in dom0. absolutely nothing. and If I have to restore my system. The only thing I'm restoring is the appvms.I will manually reinstall Qubes and re clone two or three extra templates I need, and manually reinstall the software I need in them. I have not used

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread cooloutac
. I only make clone template when I'm going to install extra software. In case it borks something or is shady. For example I have cloned template for disposable vm, where I install printer drivers. One for personal vm's that I installed libre office. One for sys-usb and sys-net.

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread cooloutac
found it https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/03/partitioning-my-digital-life-into.html -- 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

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread cooloutac
I found it. http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/03/partitioning-my-digital-life-into.html -- 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

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread cooloutac
On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 3:18:07 PM UTC-5, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 24/02/2019 1.53 PM, dexinthec...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I > > haven’t quiet developed my own best

[qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/03/2019 1.40 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: > [...] You can also take this a step further and make a snapshot of > the dom0 root volume before updating. With the default Qubes config > this is a quick process and means using 'lvcreate --snapshot' on

[qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/03/2019 6.03 AM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > My recommendations, incorporating some other previous > recommendations. > > [...] > > 1) Backup your templates and Qubes. Strongly agree. The need for backups is not Qubes-specific, but it

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Chris Laprise wrote on 3/4/19 7:40 PM: You can also take this a step further and make a snapshot of the dom0 root volume before updating. With the default Qubes config this is a quick process and means using 'lvcreate --snapshot' on the qubes_dom0/root volume. For completeness, a copy of

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/4/19 7:03 AM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: My recommendations, incorporating some other previous recommendations. 0) After install, clone the baseline templates, then re-point all the non-standalone VMs to the clones. Update the clones regularly. This avoids the catch-22 of having your

Re: Q menu cleanup ideas (was Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?)

2019-03-04 Thread unman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:45:36AM -0800, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7:14:40 AM UTC-5, swami wrote: > > Le 04/03/2019 à 13:03, b@gmail.com a écrit : > > > * at some point we'll need to talk about how to keep the Qubes menu clean > > > with all these clones

Q menu cleanup ideas (was Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?)

2019-03-04 Thread brendan . hoar
On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7:14:40 AM UTC-5, swami wrote: > Le 04/03/2019 à 13:03, b@gmail.com a écrit : > > * at some point we'll need to talk about how to keep the Qubes menu clean > > with all these clones around. > > It would surely help much to have a « Include in menus » checkbox in

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Le 04/03/2019 à 13:03, brendan.h...@gmail.com a écrit : > * at some point we'll need to talk about how to keep the Qubes menu clean > with all these clones around. It would surely help much to have a « Include in menus » checkbox in the VM properties, to avoid polluting the menu with clone VM

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-03-04 Thread brendan . hoar
My recommendations, incorporating some other previous recommendations. 0) After install, clone the baseline templates, then re-point all the non-standalone VMs to the clones. Update the clones regularly. This avoids the catch-22 of having your network broken on all your templates. If a clone

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-26 Thread 22rip
...always forget something right after hitting "Post": Similar to Stuart to avoid a borked update which happens(although rarely these days) I: 1) Back up my data prior to an update 2) I only update my original templates after updating the clones, if the clones update OK I then update my

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-26 Thread 22rip
To answer the OP question you would use the clone for AppVMs, for example: 1) Original Fedora Template = I avoid using it 2) Clone of "Original Fedora Template" = Vault AppVM 3) Cloned Template with Libre Office installed = Personal VM & for another disposable VM for printing and opening email

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-26 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:59:18 + "'awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: >dexinthec...@gmail.com: >> Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I haven’t quiet >> developed my own best practices and the documentation online has a pretty >> steep learning curve. Anyway I was

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-25 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
dexinthec...@gmail.com: Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I haven’t quiet developed my own best practices and the documentation online has a pretty steep learning curve. Anyway I was wondering what do you guys usually perform after a clean install. What do you do on

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-24 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/02/2019 1.53 PM, dexinthec...@gmail.com wrote: > Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I > haven’t quiet developed my own best practices and the documentation > online has a pretty steep learning curve. Anyway I was

[qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-24 Thread dexinthecity
Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I haven’t quiet developed my own best practices and the documentation online has a pretty steep learning curve. Anyway I was wondering what do you guys usually perform after a clean install. What do you do on a weekly basis, monthly,