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Also using Qubes on an old Lenovo Thinkpad. The only major con for me is that it takes a lot of RAM.The laptop only has like 4GB so I can barely run my work an
by regecks 10y ago
Also using Qubes on an old Lenovo Thinkpad.
The only major con for me is that it takes a lot of RAM.The laptop only has like 4GB so I can barely run my work and 'other work' VMs side by side. Often one will not boot due to memory constraints.
I think it would be fine on a 16GB laptop. I just can't be bothered upgrading that old hunk of junk.
I will bring Qubes over to my next laptop, if I ever do end up getting one. I find it indispensable for traveling - isolating network/proxy VMs from each other is amazing!
I'd also like to run i3 on it as the main WM. I think it is possible with some trickery but I didn't try.
- listic 10y agoYour laptop is very likely able to take 8GB (4+4). AFAIK every ThinkPad that takes 4GB takes 8GB, judging by what I read on the forums. X61/X200 do.
- hackermailman 10y agoTry djb's qubes manager instead of the default one https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/qubes-users/7-gm_q3nkQ8 https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/qubes-users/7-gm_q...
- pgaddict 10y agoDefinitely, memory is probably the most important resource when running Qubes. My T420s has 8GB and it's just enough, I wouldn't go for less than 16GB in the next laptop.