How I choose the color for new qubes
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- https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/31373
- Original poster
- gasull
- Created at
- 2025-01-09 01:30:21
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I thought someone could be interested in how I choose the color for a new qube. It follows some of the defaults of a fresh Qubes OS install.
- black: offline vault
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gray: almost offline, connected only by qvm-connect
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purple: online, 100% open-source software, no cloud services
- blue: online, 100% open-source software, trusted cloud services
- yellow: online, contains trusted closed-source software
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orange: online, contains untrusted closed-source software or I use it for untrusted cloud services
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green: firewall
- red: untrusted, like sys-net and sys-usb
What trusted/untrusted means: do you trust the cloud service, website, or closed-source software not to spy on your activities and sell your data?
Examples:
- multimedia appVM: I use it to listen to Spotify, which spies on me, so its color is orange.
- email appVM: I trust my email provider, so the color of this VM is blue.
- surfer appVM: I don't log in into any any web services in this qube, and all data is deleted on browser close, so the color is purple
- sys-vpn: I trust my VPN provider, and I use open-source to connect to it, so the color is blue.
- debian-12-xfce-nonfree templateVM: contains the closed-source Spotify client, which I distrust, so the color is orange.
- cloud appVM: where I log into several cloud services like ChatGPT or Google which sell my data; orange color
- social appVM: for social media; orange color
- banking appVM: forced KYC that continuously gets hacked and leaked; orange color