Ran Qubes OS for a week and just hit too many walls, I'm anticipating 4.1 will lead to better hardware passthrough, but the irreconcilable issues that keep me from making this my company's daily driver:
1) AMDGPU support is broken in Xfce. This is more with the kernel and newness of the hardware, but I cannot get a Qubes kernel to work with AMDGPU and Xfce. Can't do this on Manjaro, either, but I'll need to wait and see. 5.3.6+ is all I've been able to make work. Still not with Xfce, freedesktop.org has multiple posts on this. Beyond this, hardware passthrough, though insecure from graphics, without being able to do the vector (Inkscape), video editing (Da Vinci), 3D (Blender), is breaking for the engineering work I review and work in. Bummer. 2) Arch Linux is broken. The AUR is necessary for a lot of science/engineering packages, and for distributed scientific research projects, is the basis. Template isn't up and working, can't roll my own without HVM/PVM issues communicating with kernel. 3) TLP has too many insecure dependencies, can't use suspend or hibernate, have to shutdown and boot system every time. Just not feasible for a mobile system. I'll be back to test the OS in 4.1, and definitely keep up the work with the donations I've put in, just want to save this for the record and am excited to see new progress. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/8048a548-9217-441c-b455-04cf14e01c6a%40googlegroups.com.
