Post by steffenkd

/pay @13442 $1 for sharing his unique experience :-)

Thank you very much for that explanation, I will try it out tomorrow.

Since I would make use of it in a similar way like you described above I think I will go for the shared partition. I have no high risk profile. Just like to keep things separate because in my opinion it is just good practice and with only a little effort you will probably never get hacked. Worry free like you said :-).
So far I am using Fedora and have different browsers for different risk levels. For banking and whenever money is involved I am using a VM with virtualbox.
But it would be very nice to have different VMs for installing stuff like you mentioned above. Virtualbox is fine, but the interaction with sharing folders and external usb devices doesn't work out of the box, is very buggy and I can't really get it wo work. Even simple copy paste is a nightmare^^.
With qubes it seems to work out of the box so far and I would have everything in one place. Additionally it would be optimated for running vms.

However, enlarging the partition would still be nice since I would try to make "guild wars 2" work with Lutris on a template/vm for gaming and it needs a lot of space.
If this works out I will probably switch over completely. Otherwise I will keep Fedora as a backup, especially for occasional gaming.

Good backup feature is always appreciated.