> > I'm certainly no expert though.
I meant that you seem to be an expert in technology, maybe with a formal background in some form of engineering. I didn't mean to say that you were a Qubes expert, though three years of use and a year of in-depth tinkering does sound like an expert qualification. I wouldn't have been able to do it without the help from the mailing list. My shiny new laptop would've turned into a shiny new projectile if not for the mailing list. I seem to remember an FSF-approved ARM laptop made by some Chinese company > with a funny name a long time ago that ran Debian or something. I remember coming across something like that (memorable, since Chinese laptop companies in the privacy scene are a rarity), but couldn't find any trace of it on the FSF site. I did come across Pine64, though, which offers cheap ARM laptops. Even if there were ARM options, I don't know if the Qubes development > community could really handle it. > I think the biggest obstacle for users is availability, as non-Intel/AMD PCs must be shipped and exposed to the possibility of interdiction for virtually all users. I can't speak for everyone, but I'd feel like my laptop is tainted or just unclean if I didn't buy an off-the-shelf item. Also, non-Intel/AMD Qubes would only serve a very select niche of the Qubes community, which is already a very select niche. Maybe a good stepping stone for enterprise products though (software + hardware offerings--the Apple of privacy and security? One can dream). -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/961b7f82-2c10-4b59-8450-99cecad68afb%40googlegroups.com.
