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qubes-kvm-dev

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Are you referring to Code 43? I believe the NVIDIA drivers after version 465 may not have this issue. Here’s a report of this working on Qubes/Xen: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubes-gpu-passthrough/661/12 However you may need to hide the virtualization from some games or other software, where Qemu/KVM can be more flexible. There’s a project and some discussion to use these with Qubes, but it’s early days: https://github.com/nrgaway/qubes-kvm-dev https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/porting-qubes-to-hypervisors-ot...
In Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
This is awesome! I've been using Qubes for 5 years. I really want to use Qubes as my daily driver. I continue to find that it's not reasonably usable. My issues are the same as the author: 1. Poor hardware compatibility - due to clinging to Xen (dead/dying) 2. Poor performance (youtube @480p or xfce desktop @4k run at 5fps on a high-end system, don't even try 3D accleration) - due to not treating performance needs seriously[1]. GUI domain[2] and hiring a community manager are signs that they're starting to listen, but it looks like it will take years to land in full. I pray that Qube's devs are taking this project (and others[3]) as a wake-up call: there is a huge unfulfilled need that people are willing to do a lot to satisfy. Leveraging more modern projects (like crosvm & Wayland) can hopefully help reduce the cost ("evolve or die"). [1
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]: dozens of mailing list threads reflecting a stance of "it's the users who are wrong" [2]: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/03/18/gui-domain/ [3]: https://spectrum-os.org/ "a step towards usable secure computing" (an obvious wink to qubes), https://github.com/nrgaway/qubes-kvm-dev, etc.
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