Talk:Qubes OS

Copyvio?
There's a lot of what appears to be WP:Copyvio pasted from the Invisible Things website, and Distrowatch. Not sure which came first, but both are copyrighted. Altered Walter (talk) 12:29, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Update logo
I don't have privileges to upload an image to wikipedia, please update the logo from the website:

https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/icons/128x128/apps/qubes-logo-icon.png

Thanks! CreakCask (talk) 22:25, 27 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi . Maybe it's my color-blindness, but I can't tell the different between the linked logo and the one in the article. --Michael Reed (talk) 23:55, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Nonsensical sentence
As of, there's a sentence that says:"Qubes targets the desktop market. This market is dominated by laptops ..." 51Oq (talk) 11:28, 8 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello 51Oq,
 * That was posted by Joanna Rutkowska on the Qubes OS mailing list back in 2010 (might have been the case at the time). I think it could be specified in the article. I plan to do some work on this article at some point in the future (perhaps including a history) but right now I am focused on other things. Regards, IrrationalBeing (talk) 10:31, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Update screenshot
Can we please get an updated screenshot of Qubes running Xfce? I know it is hard to take a screenshot and get it out of dom0 -- but that is a very ugly shot of Xfce. We need a screenshot of more of the default desktop look, where the text is not blown up massively as well a smaller bar at the top and not a ridiculous amount of desktop icons. Moreover, it would look nice if the screenshot had a few windows open from a few different qubes and the mouse hovering over the xfce drop down menu to show all the available qubes as well as the mouse clicking on a single qube on the menu to show all the available applications from a qube. DreamlessGlare (talk) 19:38, 14 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello DreamlessGlare,
 * I have uploaded a new screenshot which you can find here: Qubes OS 4.1.0.png
 * I didn't customize Xfce much, only applied a dark theme, increased the size of some elements and changed the panel a bit.
 * I can happily do another one which shows the drop down menu, but I'd rather make a clean installation with the proposed configuration for a cleaner look and to avoid posting my complete configuration. Let me know what you think.
 * It is my very first upload to Wikimedia Commons, feedback is very welcome.
 * Regards, IrrationalBeing (talk) 14:03, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Linux distro or Xen distro?
Qubes OS's FAQ states that it it not a "Linux distro" but more of a "Xen distro", should this be fixed in the article?

https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#is-qubes-just-another-linux-distribution 149.156.124.3 (talk) 11:15, 15 November 2022 (UTC)