Apparently Qubes hardware compatibility is quite narrow; but the concept does fascinate me. If I could ever afford a machine which I knew it ran on, I’d surely want to!
Comments on experience with this appreciated - thanks
Apparently Qubes hardware compatibility is quite narrow; but the concept does fascinate me. If I could ever afford a machine which I knew it ran on, I’d surely want to!
Comments on experience with this appreciated - thanks
I’ve tried running it on my Acer laptop, on an Intel Nuc and an Asus desktop, in all cases the installation failed and I tried different memory sticks, insuring I was using dd correctly, checking guides, ect.
The only reason I use VMs ontop of CentOS is because I can’t get Qubes to work
On a side note… I think it’s really intended for Intel processors or that’s the vibe I get from the documentation.
Would love to hear people’s experiences too…
Thanks for your feedback. One of the reasons why I mentioned cost is it seems that the higher end Lenovos and Dells were pretty-much the only models consistently stated as compatible with it and they’re quite pricey. I find Acer more affordable and generally very compatible with Linux. I also would prefer to use AMD for both CPU and GPU in future, so if Qubes OS has difficulty with that, then that would be unfortunate.
I installed it on a System76 Lemur 6 laptop. There was a PCI card issue though so I installed PopOS back over it. I’ve just gotten a Dell Optiplex 990 MiniTower which according to the Qubes website is supposed to run Qubes well. I will try installing Qubes on it this weekend.
What I’d like to know is what is a currently manufactured laptop that runs it well. If anyone knows please tell me. I’ve heard Librem 14 runs it but haven’t been able to confirm.
Attempted to install Qubes R4 on the Dell Optiplex 990 and it said the hardware wasn’t supported. So I installed Debian Buster on it instead.
I think the difficulty is if it’s so hardware specific, with both hardware and software components changing so frequently, how can we ever predict it will work on a machine we purchase for that purpose?