PubesOS

Qubes is great, OP is a brainlet and obviously just wants to shit on Qubes.

OP = NSA

It's surprisingly good to use. Even my oldish laptop can run it without much trouble.

I got the same impression. While I'm sure there's a number of nice bells and whistles that Qubes on it's own, I see no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ditch whatever OS you're already familiar with just to get something you can probably achieve elsewhere.

What other OSes have a chance at protecting you from a compromised hardware device?

autism

But in any case this OS is marketed towards high level risks, which is fucked because side channel attacks. IBM supposedly mitigates this with their POWER9 processors.

You mean evil maid attack?

here:
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/189412/defending-against-the-evil-maid-how-to-handle-removal-of-the-boot-partition

With Spectre exploits around it might all look very different.

No, I mean from a badusb type attack. Qubes isolates the usb controller in its own vm (and network in another) behind iommu so even if the controller itself gets compromised, it can't access the rest of the system. Due to its design, it could contain Meltdown attacks to the compromised vm even without any patches. Spectre is a longer discussion, look it up if interested.

snowden promotes qubes and come to find out hes 100 percent c eye ayyyylmao clown same with that safedrop dropsecure securedrop!!!!

That's for sure my fellow teen lol, we better stop using it right away! xD