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I ran Qubes on a laptop for a while. 1) It's a huge battery hog. 2) It's a real pain to run a non rolling release distro (i.e. Arch). Some dependency is going
by drawnwren 9y ago
I ran Qubes on a laptop for a while.
1) It's a huge battery hog.
2) It's a real pain to run a non rolling release distro (i.e. Arch). Some dependency is going to try and upgrade itself that can't and it will brick your whole distro. Even being locked to a specific release proved a bit of a pain. It just adds a lot of complexity to your day to day operations (i.e. opening a program is a tiny bit more complicated) that turned out to be a huge drain for me.
- kakarot 9y agoRunning an HVM with a separate kernel should alleviate those problems. Qubes is phasing out PV support anyway. I encounter an equal amount of complexity in my KVM workstation as I did in my Qubes workstation, and more problems. For example, lack of a secure copy/paste mechanism, meaning I must type passwords by hand to avoid every VM being exposed to the clipboard.