Claudio Chinicz: > Hi, I've been following this thread, as well as others on this user group. > > Without being critic, or trying to bring some positive feedback, I can say > that Qubes needs to evolve towards to being more user friendly and manageable > as a corporate product. On the positive side, I can say from my personal > experience that, once properly configured, it works and is stable. Maybe > creating some user admin features that would limit what an end user can do > would make it "user proof" (is there something like that?) and enterprise fit.
What you mean by "user proof"? I guess you mean non-technical people. Something that's fool proof in regard of the usability for non-technical or technical people has to be invented yet. But I think that's the wrong approach. The presentation of the OS should be in a way that it is understandable for average human beings. The use of all those fancy terminologies should be avoided. The desktop manager should be a choice by the end-user (e.g. Xfce, KDE, Gnome, etc.). The administration should be realized with scripts that can be implemented in any of these DMs. The system should implement rolling updates that would eliminate tedious and error prone version upgrades. It should be possible to use the backups of the system on a different system. Meaning that since Qubes leverages VMs that there should be two types of backups: A) A full system backup, which includes all the VMs' vdisks, and B) A traditional backup of the user data. The reason for that is that a restored VM might not start and can't be repaired. I've seen that a lot in huge VMware installations. > >>From this perspective, the underlying OS is less of a concern, provided it is >>stable and automatically upgradable. > I agree with the last part of the statement, but else I consider the OS as one of the most important pieces of the whole system; especially the Linux kernel that's especially true in regard to laptops. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/09b5d3da-f91c-2224-ccc9-0c761a060daa%40riseup.net.
