Seems to me we are quickly approaching a moment in time where QubesOS, with all the elaborate and resource-draining virtualization, becomes more performant than Windows.  

#QubesOS #Windows

@rysiek How was that line? Microsoft ♥️ Linux?
@rysiek sadly had to stop using Qubes OS because I need the GPU. Annoying, because it's really a phenomenal system.

@loke yeah, the GPU issue is a problem, no doubt. I've spent months trying to get a GPU working inside a VM once. Apparently some folks succeeded.

There is some work being done on this though. Maybe one day!

@rysiek @loke There's been a whole lot of work put into that fairly recently, in the form of virtio-gpu and "DRM native context" which should be GPU-independent. Though the issue with the latter is that it breaks the core isolation mode of qubes, by giving the guest pretty much direct access to a rather large amount of host kernel surface area.

@becomethewaifu @loke yup.

As long as that's opt-in and left to the user to enable, I think I am okay with it.

@rysiek @becomethewaifu yeah, if the alternative is not being able to use Qubes at all, that's a compromise I'm perfectly willing to accept.

I know there was work on it over a year ago (there was an interesting talk on the topic atvthe Qubes conference about two years ago). I haven't heard anything on the topic in the last year though, so I wonder if the work stalled.

@rysiek a GPU inside a vm really only helps if you have a specific usecase, like games. The problem is that even just web browsing requires a GPU these days to not be a depressing experience.
@loke I mostly solved my annoyances with forcing my browsers to not do blur. Life is much better now.