Looking to Move Off of Ubuntu to a More Privacy Oriented Linux OS
Looking for some suggestions, preferably with existing tested compatibility with the Framework laptop hardware so I can do more well rounded research. I’m the most familiar with Ubuntu and CentOS. Picked Ubuntu initially for mid 2000s nostalgia purposes but it’s time to move on.
What usability is sacrificed?
I can’t play any games that require a GPU, but that is really the only issue I have, and GPU pass-through isn’t impossible.
gpu usability is massive issue, HW acceleration is quite significant. video players and webrowsers rely on it for good video playback in a lot of cases. qubes on moderately low end hardware really chugs because of this.
now not all is doom and gloom, Qubes does use XEN which is actually getting virtio work for it. vulkan and hwacceleration for VMs will be supported… eventually on the hypervisor level, which will be a massive usability boost for qubes
I’ve been daily driving Qubes OS from the 4.1 release, around 1.5 years.
The GPU isn’t a massive issue, unless you want to play games, I don’t have any issues with video play back.
GPU pass-thought is possible, but it requires a system with 2 display devices, there are people using this to play games, or run cuda software, etc.
My experience has been that I can do pretty much anything I used to do in traditional Linux.
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