I want to say thank you to those members of Qubes Users who have had the patience to answer my questions and solve my problems getting Qubes up and running. I have been particularly pleased that this is a forum where there are few, if any, unhelpful responses to questions and few questions/requests for help where the asker has not tried to find the answer in this forum or in the documentation.
While I have a computer background, my entire career was spend in the software/research environment, I do not have a background in PC/Linux internals (though decades ago I did acquire some Unix sys-admin knowledge). That means I came to Qubes without the the in-depth security knowledge that the more knowledgeable of you have — my knowledge is more superficial. Having provided that background, I was trying to think of a way of "giving back" to this community. Would a "Setting up a Semi-Secure Personal Computing Environment Using Qubes" document be a useful addition (albeit, with a more succinct title!)? It would be aimed at computer users who want a more secure environment, but are willing to live with some security exposures (ones that hopefully have an exceedingly low probability of being exploited against an "average Joe") — for example, using a USB mouse and keyboard. Clearly one needs to have some degree of computer literacy to tackle switching to Qubes, but I think a step-by-step migration guide might be useful and fewer people might give up. In it, I could briefly describe the "Hardware Issues" which are already well documented (hence "briefly" as they applied to me) and then get into the issues of choosing which qubes to set up, the issues of dealing with a desktop computer that only has USB mouse/keyboard capability, various user-interface issues and, perhaps more importantly, migrating data from another OS (in my case Linux Mint) to the Qubes environment. By the way, I have Thunderbird set up with Enigmail and have my keys set up using Split GPG. I will be switching tho using the mailing list for submissions. Oh, and I am now using Qubes as my full-time computing environment :-) -- 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/634fcb34-f983-4146-82ce-69e24839491d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
