On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 4:17:31 AM UTC+8, Patrick Bouldin wrote: > I have a goal to buy a new laptop, preconfigured with Windows, and then > within Windows I will reallocate disk space in order to install Qubes4.0. > > In the past with prior versions of Qubes that has sometimes been problematic, > is that fixed with 4.0 or still a problem? > > Any input on how to proceed? > > One data point, while I can recreate windows it's a pain in the butt to get > the licensing back on the machine. I can do it, but would like to avoid it. > > Thanks, > Patrick
Question: What's your purpose for using Qubes? Usually the answer is to have very-high level of security. This purpose however, is ultimately defeated once you do OS dual boot as your Qubes installation could be easily infiltrated/modified in the context of the Windows OS that you have dual-booted. So I suggest having two HDDs or one HDD and one M.2/SATA PCI SSD in your laptop to effectively separate the Windows OS and Qubes OS(By setting a password on the HDD/SSD where Qubes is installed and not entering it when booting on the Windows OS (To effectively protect the UEFI boot partition and also a tag-team protection with LUKS encryption). If you really want to insist on dual boot however, sad to say but I can't help you with that. -- 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/37b79503-dc99-40e1-ba10-178ce5f2f221%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
