On 05/16/2018 03:35 PM, Mindus Amitiel Debsin wrote: > OK, I got Qubes installed and it seems to be working fine. It's not on my > primary SSD drive, but it is working fine on an external SATA drive I > connected. I had to do a UTC time fix to make Whonix work, but I did and now > it works. > > So I have a couple questions now as to whether or not I can use Qubes as a > primary OS: > > 1) Is it true that only Windows 7 can be installed as a qube? Nah you can use any windows. > 2) I have a brand new GTX 1080 TI graphics card on the way: will there be any > driver support on qubes for this, or will I suffer dramatically reduced > performance? You don't need nor benefit from any 3D acceleration in the host windows but due to nvidias hate of linux and the nouveau project you would probably be forced to install the *unsigned* proprietary drivers which adds many security risks to get even just 2D acceleration of the window manager.
If you can I would return it for an AMD card - they are much more friendly when it comes to linux and of course playing games in a VM, nvidia introduced a "bug" in their drivers to make it more difficult. > 3) Will Steam and it's games work on a Windows 7 qubes VM? Yeah you can probably do that. I use qemu on another PC and play my games at max settings in a VM on my libre firmware KGPE-D16 board, if done properly there will be no stuttering or reduced performance vs bare metal. Keep in mind most "consumer" boards have broken IOMMU and or IOMMU-GFX due to firmware bugs, but you might be able to work around that by using the coreboot sandybridge/ivybridge autoport utility to make a port for your board if the hardware is supported - or of course just buying a KCMA-D8 or KGPE-D16 and installing the very good libreboot/coreboot-libre port. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/b0f60928-5fd0-b057-883e-75a1f740468f%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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