Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-21 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Mike, Would you please read through our mailing list guidelines? https://www.qubes-os.org/mailing-lists/ Specifically, please avoid top-posting. Instead, reply interleaved or bottom-post. This helps keep the mailing lists more organized.

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Chris Laprise
On 12/20/2016 06:57 PM, Mike Mez wrote: "Search for "VFIO NVIDIA Error 43" on your favorite search engine. Pretty much it just shuts off 3D mode and gives you Error 43 in device manager if it detects some hardware virt features, there is a way around it but I wasted hours until I figured out

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Chris Laprise
On 12/20/2016 06:57 PM, Mike Mez wrote: This is/immensely/ helpful. To reiterate... to make sure I understand, with "windows problems" easy is easy and impossible is basically impossible (which I can say with experience is fairly on the money of my experience as well). With Linux, the

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I would get the radeon definitely, AMD is more foss/linux friendly than NVIDIA as well. Things to get: a kgpe-d16, the best available g34 socket 16 core opteron 62xx CPU in your price range off ebay (such as 6284SE, 6282SE or 6276) and 32GB DDR3 ECC RDIMM RAM (I would go with 4, 8gb sticks

[qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Mike Mez
"I understand your position. At this point, I think you should read, learn, and try (i.e., download, install, and use) as much as you can about your viable options to figure out which solution is right for you. While there is a fair amount of code and functionality that is unique to Qubes,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Mike Mez
"Search for "VFIO NVIDIA Error 43" on your favorite search engine. Pretty much it just shuts off 3D mode and gives you Error 43 in device manager if it detects some hardware virt features, there is a way around it but I wasted hours until I figured out what was going on. It is a gpu only thing,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Mike Mez
This is* immensely* helpful. To reiterate... to make sure I understand, with "windows problems" easy is easy and impossible is basically impossible (which I can say with experience is fairly on the money of my experience as well). With Linux, the difficultly curve of problems are kind of inverted

[qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-20 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-12-19 16:29, Mike Mez wrote: > Wow! I wasn't actually expecting my "dream" scenario to be so > possibly ... probably ... maybe in fact viable. I understand that > since the main focus in Qubes early stages (or perhaps it's far > more

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-19 Thread Chris Laprise
On 12/18/2016 11:49 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: *2. *You mentioned during the interview that you came to Qubes as a lifelong widows user. I am in the situation when it comes to this as a lifelong windows user. What would you say is the learning curve for using Qubes is? How easy would

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-19 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 12/19/2016 07:31 PM, Mike Mez wrote: "As a tip if you desire to attempt gpu passthrough do not buy an NVIDIA card as they like to introduce driver "bugs" that make it difficult to try and entice you to buy a quadro." Thank you for the tip. Where could I see an example of this? To my current

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-18 Thread taii...@gmx.com
As a tip if you desire to attempt gpu passthrough do not buy an NVIDIA card as they like to introduce driver "bugs" that make it difficult to try and entice you to buy a quadro. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe

[qubes-users] Re: Screensavers : Qubes Questions!

2016-12-18 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Mike, Thanks for the questions. My replies are inline below. I'm also CCing the qubes-users mailing list so that others can join and benefit from the discussion. You can read more about our mailing lists here: