I recently installed Qubes on a laptop. I think the install couldn't quite complete because my home network runs without dchp and I couldn't find a way to tell it what IP it could use to get on the network. Nonetheless, it did seem interesting enough to be worth a look. It came with Debian and Fedora Templates installed and my impression is that those OSes have their core programming stored in the Root where it is untouchable so to update them takes some extra steps.
I have an email client running on an old laptop using OpenBSD and this laptop seems so old it can't handle surfing the web very well at all so email is all I use it for. My desktop pc has Trisquel 7 which I only use to login to my bank every so often and get updates. My desktop pc also boots up to, I think I am up to 7 different flavors of GNULinux now and I have been using them for general surfing and to keep in touch with what many of the different camps are achieving. My actual financial records are kept on another laptop that seldom sees the internet (also openBSD). When I use Belenos to go to my bank, I have the laptop beside me and transfer information by hand to it. I play games on a Playstation. In other words, I like the idea of isolating stuff, no bundles for me! At least, if I ever get hacked, it will only go so far. But it does create some headaches to do it this way. One thing though that I worry about is the wifi router. It sees everything and short of looking for a firmware update on a regular basis I really don't know much about how one goes about keeping it secure.
