>>8451927Qubes may serve a practical purpose for some people, but most of the time it's a meme.
Compartmentalization only mitigates the threat to information integrity and confidentiality. That's not usually the threat posed by running sketchy programs or opening sketchy files. Also, such an attack rarely happens as long as you're careful. Run a VM yourself if you want.
It's the government trying to see what you've been up to. Those kinds of attacks target machines at a lower level of abstraction. Qubes still has an underlying operating system, and that's the main threat to your security, just like any other operating system.
