I spent most of my life using Fedora as my primary operating system on my desktop/laptops. I use CentOS on my servers, sometimes even Fedora, and a few special cases, I use *BSD systems.

But, for the last one year I am running Qubes OS as my primary operating system on my laptop. That enables me to still keep using Fedora in the AppVMs as I want, and I can also have different work VMs in Debian/Ubuntu or even Windows as required. Moving to a newer version of Fedora is just about installing the new template and rebooting any AppVM with the newest template.

Fedora 29 will release on 30th October, and Qubes team already built a template for the same and pushed to the testing repository. You can install it by the following command.

$ sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-29 --enablerepo=qubes-templates-itl-testing

After this, I just installed all the required packages and setup the template as I want using my Qubes Ansible project. It took only a few minutes to move all of my development related VMs into Fedora 29 and this still keeps the option open to go back to Fedora 28 the moment I want. This is one of the beauty of Qubes OS and of course there are the regular security aspects too.

If you are a software developer using Linux, and also care about security practices, give Qubes OS a try. It has also a very active and helpful user community. I am sure it will not disappoint you.