Sorry to beat a dead horse. I am sure folks here are sick of answering hardware questions.
So I understand the dev team currently seems to like the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th gen. I assume best to get with 16GB RAM (max) and an SSD. I assume you get with Windows10 or 7 and wipe it clean for your Qubes install or even need to install some new BIOS? I know some folks here have recommended for example the W520 or W530 but these would have to be bought used since they are no longer for sale? Would we expect the X1 to have similar feature compatibility with Qubes 4 as the W520 or W530? Better the 5th Gen than the newest 6th Gen? I want Qubes because I am interested in security and therefore am willing to pay more for the right machine. An ideal machine might be more oriented to open source than the Lenovo machines. In that vein I looked at the Thinkpenguin Y machine, which seemed to have nice specs plus the ability to get 32GB RAM https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-y-gnulinux-laptop however Thinkpenguin sales told me: "I wouldn't expect it to work right given Qubes4 is based off an older driver stack. If there is a rolling update to the driver stack I'm not aware of it. I believe the core is based on Fedora which has frequent releases rather than a rolling driver stack which I think means based on the version of Fedora currently used Qubes4 is slightly too far out of date to have support for the latest generation hardware. I think even the latest release of Fedora might not be adequate as I don't think its listed on either laptop as a supported distribution but that might just be the result of nobody checking thus far." Is that right? So is it generally better to try and setup older hardware with Qubes from a strict features-compatibility standpoint? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/652b17ac-7d3f-4763-8fc3-f749e4bebebe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
