How is your Qubes experience, if you don’t mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.
Do you daily drive it? I’m also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I’m not sure if it’s feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.
I daily drive it for non-preformance tasks on a star book mk VI (coreboot, ME disabled). You can do things like GPU pass through, by qubes doesn’t recommend it because of how insecure accessing vram can be (I think, someone will correct me if I’m wrong XP).
For larger tasks like games or CAD, I have a desktop with a 5950x and a 5700xt. That runs proxmox on Debian (headless). I decrypt it via dropbear-ssh and login via proxmox’s web interface. From there I can start 1 for four VMS I setup which have access to most of the machines resources including all but two threads 30ish GB of ram, and a full 5700xt. I used a VM running on this machine to beat Cyberpunk 2077 @ 1440p mid-high settings with above 60fps, that being said that was back when my host OS was gentoo, and pre-dlc when 2077 was a little lighter on hardware.
Haven’t gotten it to run that good since, however my play through of system shock (2023) has been p good so far.
That’s actually an impressive setup! I’ve been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.
I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.
Yoo Starbook, I’m unironically considering one of those Starlabs laptops, but sadly the standard starbook is sold out.
I’m a little sad they don’t offer openSUSE, Fedora, or Arch options, but there’s an option to buy them without any OS. Is there a reason they recommend a particular range of OSes as suitable for the starbook?
And how are they for gaming? Think like Stardew, Paradox games, and so on.
Using qubes so can’t say much for gaming, but I imagine it’d be about as well for any similarly spec’d ultrabook. I think they test those listed distros for compatibility, but I ran qubes on it since before they listed it as an option.
Actually in the middle of rma’ing the board for bad power circuitry (after 3 years), well see how it goes before I reccomend it. That being said the new lemur pro from system76 isn’t made out of plastic shit, but instead magnesium alloy, so that actually looks promising as an alternative.
How is your Qubes experience, if you don’t mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.
Do you daily drive it? I’m also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I’m not sure if it’s feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.
I daily drive it for non-preformance tasks on a star book mk VI (coreboot, ME disabled). You can do things like GPU pass through, by qubes doesn’t recommend it because of how insecure accessing vram can be (I think, someone will correct me if I’m wrong XP).
For larger tasks like games or CAD, I have a desktop with a 5950x and a 5700xt. That runs proxmox on Debian (headless). I decrypt it via dropbear-ssh and login via proxmox’s web interface. From there I can start 1 for four VMS I setup which have access to most of the machines resources including all but two threads 30ish GB of ram, and a full 5700xt. I used a VM running on this machine to beat Cyberpunk 2077 @ 1440p mid-high settings with above 60fps, that being said that was back when my host OS was gentoo, and pre-dlc when 2077 was a little lighter on hardware.
Haven’t gotten it to run that good since, however my play through of system shock (2023) has been p good so far.
That’s actually an impressive setup! I’ve been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.
I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.
Yoo Starbook, I’m unironically considering one of those Starlabs laptops, but sadly the standard starbook is sold out.
I’m a little sad they don’t offer openSUSE, Fedora, or Arch options, but there’s an option to buy them without any OS. Is there a reason they recommend a particular range of OSes as suitable for the starbook?
And how are they for gaming? Think like Stardew, Paradox games, and so on.
Using qubes so can’t say much for gaming, but I imagine it’d be about as well for any similarly spec’d ultrabook. I think they test those listed distros for compatibility, but I ran qubes on it since before they listed it as an option.
Actually in the middle of rma’ing the board for bad power circuitry (after 3 years), well see how it goes before I reccomend it. That being said the new lemur pro from system76 isn’t made out of plastic shit, but instead magnesium alloy, so that actually looks promising as an alternative.
I’ll let ya know how I make out with the repair.