Qubes handles video playback just fine even at FHD (although within a frame, to show security context).
The MS Office website says Excel requires DirectX "for acceleration". IOW, it runs without acceleration if DirectX hardware is not available. Its not something I really notice, given that Excel mainly deals with text on a grid.
If you really need 3D, Qubes can handle it as long as you supply an additional GPU that behaves well with an IOMMU, such as an Nvidia Quadro. Otherwise, you have to wait for ITL to incorporate GPU virtualization into the Qubes codebase... but virtual GPU tech has only been demonstrated by GPU vendors very recently.
Granted, 3D is an important feature in PCs today, but the inability to
You'll have more luck 3D-wise with a Hyper-V server combined with Windows new RemoteFX technology. I know that this is unpopular option, and if anyone can set me straight on hypervisors and 3D for Windows guests not running on Windows hypervisors, please do. I've researched KVM, LXD, Jailhouse, or ESX, and of those, only ESX has experimental Windows 3D guest support.
Most hypervisors are designed for the convenience of users and sysadmins to either run another OS, or better manage server resources... Securing desktop PC features is secondary at best with them.
Its designed to run Windows 7 as a guest OS.
Its not FUD when a malware (or bug) with normal privs can open an avenue for physical attack.
If a website/MITM tricks your browser into putting up a tiny context menu, it can allow someone to walk up to your computer later and start messing with it.
Qubes graphics virtualization appears to prevent this attack, since there is no way a VM client can use specific X features (it can only report bitmap deltas to dom0) and it can't force a full-screen window (the user even has to jump through hoops to make that possible).
As entropy in the universe increases, so does the amount of space.
Vpro?
They're avoiding Vpro specifically because of security concerns.
But using my signature.
I want secure boot from beginning to desktop, with the knowledge that the NSA has not dicked with my computer beyond its initial state.
They are looking into it... https://groups.google.com/d/ms...
The Qubes OS community is interested in this laptop, but without a TPM chip Qubes' AEM firmware guarding feature won't work on the Librem. So they are looking at accommodating us in another way by employing some kind of user-generated cert to protect the system firmware.
Purism did, however, switch their CPU to an i7-770HQ (along with HM87 chipset) specifically to satisfy Qubes' requirement for I/O virtualization. Pending proper support in Coreboot, Qubes should run and provide great protection from remote exploits on the Librem.
Given the track record of Fedora, the update will hit the mirrors in about 2 days.
Well clearly nothing is good enough for you. Try making your criticism constructive sometime.
You obviously didn't read the website.
But I get your reasoning... Shiny pocket computers are more important than dealing with servitude.
I don't have to read the whole website to see that all I said was correct.
My hero!!! His Xray vision even works over the Internet.
What is your fucking point anyway? That you are morally superior to me because you have a fair phone - no wait, you said you could get one if you wanted to.
My point (if you read it) is that choices exist out there that the Android market at least makes possible.
Me, I don't have any shiny pocket computers unlike you hypocrite. Fuck you.
You presume too much, kemosabe... I'm going on 8 years with the same dumb-phone now.
You obviously didn't read the website.
But I get your reasoning... Shiny pocket computers are more important than dealing with servitude.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
