A relatively long time ago, we proposed building all the components of
Qubes Windows Tools (QWT) in a Linux environment using MinGW and Wine,
which allows us to use our existing CI tools and simplify the
maintenance of changes. We also worked a lot on improving the stability
of all the components, in particular, eliminating the causes of freezes
and performance degradation. In recent weeks, all of our proposed
changes have been approved and merged, and the
cross-build (github.com/QubesOS…ls-cross)
project has been added as a Qubes OS component. I’m sure everything will
be available in the stable repositories soon.
Conclusion
The result of our work is full integration of Windows 7, 10, and 11 in
Qubes OS and significant improvements in usability for even
inexperienced users.
Thanks to all members of the tabit-pro team, especially Dmitriy Fedorov
(@easydozen (https://github.com/easydozen)). Many thanks to Marek
Marczykowski-Górecki for his assistance and the Qubes dev team as a
whole for their daily work. Special thanks to the Qubes community,
especially for their kind words of support.
Ivan Kardykov
tabit.pro (https://tabit.pro/)