i'm sure it would. since qubes is a meta os, you can install openbsd as a qube if you want, but imo it has nothing comparable to using disposable vms in qubes. i like openbsd. the community is amazing and are actually turning it from a server os to something that can be used on desktop. it's just not secure out of the box, you have to harden it which defeats the purpose for most users
OpenBSD is absolutely incredibly secure by default, but right it’s not for general users.
Running secure is costly
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-14-openbsd-default-security.html
💯 openbsd is really cool. and yes, it's "secure by defult" is awesome but def not for general users and it also means services that most people want in a daily driver turned off by default. imo, it's a excellent os to install in qubesos.
What are your thoughts on PopOS? It’s at least very easy to use… where I think Qubes is a long way off from being usable by ‘normies’
If qubes is the first Linux distro you ever see, yeah that’s going to be a steep learning curve. More to the point I think the cybersecurity concepts is missing from them grasping how and why to use it.
You spend hours on FB and Insta? Cool, keep doing it. Set up a qube just for that with only a web browser and a firewall that only connects to those two sites. A lot of attack surface is gone instead of letting it all hang out doing that in the same browser as your banking and email.
That I think is the bigger knowledge gap rather than the UI of qubes.
run a stable OS (long term releases) that you can learn so you can lock it down
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