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As a person who isn't familiar with Qubes, I wanted to find a nice quick summary. The homepage didn't give me that. I clicked the Tour tab and was greeted with this:

"Are you completely new to Qubes OS? We suggest watching the full 33 minute video"

They really could intrigue more people like me if they would update their site to be a bit more clear what they do. :)

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They basically break your system into different VM's to isolate things from one another. Compromising the Browser VM shouldn't hurt the Business Secrets VM. One could even have two Browser VM's to separate risky sites from trusted ones. There's other advantages to VM's like for software testing, upgrades, backups, trimming the fat, etc.

The main thing Qubes brings to the table is building one on Xen with lots of usability features to make things easy.

If you scroll down a bit on that page, there's a brief text introduction to Qubes (aimed at a non-technical audience):

https://www.qubes-os.org/tour/#what-is-qubes-os

Is that more like what you were looking for?

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