I want to start by saying I really like this laptop so far and it works great for me in qubes 4.0. I’m a (very) long term linux user but new to qubes. For the last 5 years I have used a macBook pro as my primary computer for personal and work, and am using this to replace that first for personal stuff and dev projects and then hopefully soon for my main work also. I also didn’t ever boot pureOs (their debian spin) so can’t comment on what that’s like.
So a 15” mbp is my point of comparison and these are relatively minor issues which don’t stop me from using the laptop for everything I need (so far): they added a numpad (that I don’t use) so you’re not centered on the screen when you type and there are extra keys to the right of the arrows. Annoying to me but many people wouldn’t notice or might even like the numpad It won’t boot qubes R3.2 for some reason so I have to run R4.0. That’s fine for me although it means a somewhat rougher user experience as it’s not super polished yet The keys for screen brightness, volume etc are hooked up using dark magic that doesn’t work in i3wm for some reason. On xfce they work just fine. At some point I’ll try to figure it out and if you don’t use i3 you may not care I haven’t got the acpi (or whatever it’s called now) settings quite right yet so it doesn’t shut down properly - It shuts everything down but leaves the screen backlight on, then I have to manually press and hold the power button for it to actually shut down. Likewise I can hibernate it, but it doesn’t come back from hibernation. Again, there’s probably a fix I’m not crazy about the touchpad. It’s resonsive enough but the friction on the surface is a little high. I guess macs have pampered me and I’ve become soft. It won’t drive my super-wide external monitor at full resolution so I am restricted to a “mere” 1900xsomething. If you’re not familiar with this laptop, some of the points in its favour are: 1. Free software ethos: comes with core boot and the hardware is user replaceable to an extent very unusual for a laptop 2. Security-minded: ME disabled, open-source bios and has hardware disable switches for mic&camera and wifi&bluetooth Let me know if you have specific questions and I’ll try to address Sean Sent from my phone. Sorry if brief. -- 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/F58853A4-2B71-4DC8-87DA-6735126F74FD%40uncarved.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.