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What is so unreliable or unfinished in Whonix that warnings about it being experimental software are warranted?
Many smaller and bigger issues. Selection:
- https://forums.whonix.org/t/get-rid-of-klipper
- Improve entropy collection in VMs · Issue #673 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
- ⚓ Query: Open Tasks
- Issues · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
In Qubes R4 things are getting quite complex. Far too few eyes on it.
Excerpt of complexity:
Dev/Qubes - Whonix
There are too many issues to tackle for such a small project like
Whonix. On the Libre Software ecosystem generally:
Wiki search fallback suggestion - #6 by Patrick
It’s far from any solid project. What could be a comparable solid
project? In end-user computer software, difficult. Selling a commercial
grade washing machine perhaps. Then the vendor can provide data: how
many times it can be run in what period approximately, which things
break how often, which things need maintenance in which order, complete
manual. Making anonymity software anywhere near solid and well defined
doesn’t seem on the horizon.
Are the shortcomings mostly in usability and user friendliness or in features to do with security, privacy, anonymity?
No.
When will it grow out of its experimental phase and be considered mature?
Doesn’t look like it ever will at this point.
While many issues listed below are planned for future implementation, a number will probably never get “fixed” because they are impossible to address in a software-only project.
Does this mean Whonix will forever be condemned to being alpha software?
Yes.