On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 7:46:41 PM UTC+1, Graham wrote: > Hi > I've not tried 4.0 yet, but I have been running 3.2 for a few weeks on my > main production laptop, a thinkpad t440p. And qubes has been working better > than I expected, but its a big learning curve going from windows to qubes, > with only basic linux skills. > > I'm going to try 4.0 on a separate ssd, once I obtain one. But at the moment > I'm still playing around with 3.2. > > During installation I selected luks encryption, which works fine. But my ssd > is encrypted using the bios, so perhaps not using luks would give me better > battery life, and cpu performance? > > I did have trouble shutting qubes down. And, I found the best practice was to > shutdown all vms and system vms, first. That way I'm guaranteed a quick and > easy shutdown, without any issues. > > The power manager on the taskbar occasionally crashes when being used, and I > have to go to 'system tools' and restart it. > > I upgraded debian-8 to debian-9, and deleted the dedian-8 template from qubes > manager but 'template: debian-8' still remains in the dom0 app menu. I've > tried various cli commands to remove it but nothing works. > > I'm confused how to install unsigned packages, and what the best practice is. > > Should I install the package inside a new and clean templatevm, then create > an appvm from that template? Or create a standalonevm from a clean template > and install package inside the appvm? > > Also, the qubes instructions says fedora minimal uses 300mb disk space, but > mine is currently using 1500mb. Which seems like a lot. > > I've probably got more questions and issues. But so far Qubes is a great!
r3.2 has a few issues with shortcut removal; if you're bored, you can remove the entries manually from submenus in (iirc) .local, .gnome and shared. Otherwise, just ignore them, and go by what the qubes-manager (or qvm-ls) tells you is installed. :) As to templates, it doesn't matter so long as you are working with AppVMs (Standalone is a different story, for obvious reasons). Just reboot the appvm after shutting down the template, and you're good to go. 1200mb for fedora-minimal is about as low as it goes, you can run qvm-trim-template every once in a while to shrink the image. -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5e93ef10-1920-4317-b63f-06485f56fb49%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
