tutorials

  • 1st December 2025

How to add GPU passthrough support to QubesOS

I found a way to use GPU in your QubesOS VMs. Now cracking/rendering on Qubes might be more realistic than ever.

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  • 15th November 2025

Moving files to and from your phone in Qubes OS

This is a repost of a beautiful parulin’s post with minor additions. Helpful if your phone doesn’t mount to the VMs using standard options

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  • 1st August 2025

Getting started with helix-gpt

Here’s how to make helix-gpt work

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  • 29th July 2025

Syncing backups

This is how to automate and sync your backups across devices.

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  • 17th July 2025

How to use your own tools on remote machines via SSH socks tunnel

By using tunnels, you can forward only requests, without installing applications on the target machine

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  • 20th June 2025

How to receive reverse shells and expose services to the Internet on QubesOS

QubesOS is amazing for security, and equally amazing at making CTFs 10x harder than they need to be. It’s the firewall’s fault.

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  • 6th June 2025

Fixing FreeRDP 3's BadAtom error on QubesOS

When you try to run FreeRDP 3, you will likely get the BadAtom error.

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  • 6th June 2025

How to run nix on qubes

Nix is great for keeping your system clean and your sanity slightly intact. But thanks to how QubesOS handles templates and persistence, it’s not plug-and-play.

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  • 4th June 2025

Learn to use Nix in 10 minutes

After this guide, you will be able to:

  • replace apt or pacman with the nixpkgs package repository, even if you don’t care about declarativity
  • use home-manager to set up all your configs and apps declaratively with just one config file and use it on any machine
  • use any nixpkgs package one time only and without bloat, fix dependency hell and weird dependencies
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  • 6th February 2025

How to install Windows on Qubes OS

Installing Windows on Qubes OS can be tricky due to its closed-source nature. Unlike Linux templates designed for Qubes OS, Windows requires the installation of Qubes Windows Tools to function correctly (network, audio, etc.). This guide uses the qvm-create-windows-qube tool, which is the recommended and most secure method.

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