On Friday, 18 August 2017 12:07:08 UTC+10, Malin Fylking wrote:
> Was thinking about bugs / crashes because of the hardware.
> Do you think it's a good computer for Qubes OS?
It's functional.
As per all PC's, you will have crashes every now and again because they use
SystemD instead of SysV.
Which is why I have been trying to get a Slackware version working properly,
but still tough to convert everything to get it installed and working.
If you remember to kill off the QubesVM Manager every now and again, as well as
pause your guests (Fedora based) when you are going AFK overnight or for a
while, then that will lessen the amount of crashes you will have.
I use an HP 4650b with Qubes, and that functions fine with 8 GB RAM and a Quad
Core i7.
Since it had Win7 on it, you can install Win7 into a Guest, then register using
your key. So that is one good thing.
I run Qubes on a lot of older hardware as well as some not so old hardware.
My PC that I run it on has 24 GB RAM and a hyperthreaded Hex Core Xeon.
And I have this thing loaded to bare. I run 15+ Guests most of the time.
That includes 1 NetVM and 2 ProxyVMs.
My PC only locks every now and again when I have something that is built into
Qubes go haywire.
Don't run FF under Fedora and leave it for the weekend. That will lock things
up if you have too many things open.
Close the Qubes Manager When you are going away overnight even. My Qubes
Manager, when I boot starts about 1 GB RAM. After a day, it's used 75% of the
Dom0 RAM. When it hits 80% or more, it generally locks the PC and I have to
force a restart by powering off, not shutting down cleanly.
So if you base your Laptop off the PC that I use and how hard I run it, you can
get an idea of what you could do with your Laptop and the stability.
My 4thread laptop with 8 GB RAM. I can typically run 4-5 guests without hastle.
XEN is very good at management that way. NetVM and ProxyVM running with only
512MB RAM, 1 thread max. so that leaves 7GB for everything Else. I have my Dom0
set to 2 GB RAM. So that leaves 5 for Guests.
I customised my Laptop version for maximum efficiency since it's not the
workhorse my Desktop is. It's just a portable version for general work.
My Desktop runs with 5 monitors at times. Generally I just run 2-3 depending on
what I am doing and how much I am working on. I have it set for 7 virtual
desktops.
I have my own person self-built Qubes Suite working and doing most of the
things I need it to do.
Typically I have about 80 windows open at any one time on a slow day.
Hope that this information is useful for you.
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