I believe this is because of a vast difference of manpower and popularity between Ubuntu and Qubes. Also taking into consideration the use-case of Qubes when it comes to popularity.
You see, Operating systems don't really work "magically" on hardware These operating systems need to have drivers designed and coded in order to establish stable communication between your Hardware and Operating system. Taking this in mind, yes, for the most part, the general approach is to have a driver for each and every popular hardware that are put into machines and are being utilized by users. There may be generic drivers but these drivers don't really work universally So in order to code these drivers, you need a vast amount of manpower Since Ubuntu is arguably the most popular linux distribution to the general populace and I believe popularity really has alot of influence to the amount of people contributing to the Ubuntu project - contributors who could definitely help in coding these drivers While I'm not exactly sure if there is a way to make installation seamlessly work on 'any' hardware and only have issues float by Login interface and have access to shell, I sincerely believe that the very reason why installation tends to fail alot is the lack of drivers. There are a bunch of things you can try to make installation happen like setting nomodeset, acpi=off, and etc. Alas, if your notebook has an intel CPU then I seriously believe it has Intel HD graphics not unless it's those old ones that don't really have it It would be great if you have Intel HD graphics cause you can definitely push through installation with nomodeset to avoid utilizing your nvidia GPU It's not ideal to use that GPU for Qubes anyway, specially when you're looking to make some gaming VM where you would passthrough your Nvidia GPU -- 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/fabb631a-af20-4f3a-9a34-c47d0770eee7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
