I tried and absolutely love Qubes, it runs good overall on my laptop but I have issues doing anything GPU related as I have only built in intel’s one. I read the tweaks I can use etc but it doesn’t make it better much for me.
As this is my only device, it’s just not usable as daily driver like that.
Currently I figured out I should either use dual boot with some other linux distro(I’m not sure if it’s a good idea due to security) or maybe some linux distro on usb with persistent storage (tried couple of time and couldn’t make it work, anything I saved was erased).
Maybe you could suggest a better way or an alternative of some kind.
Thanks
In general if you don’t have a dGPU that could be passed through to a VM you’re going to have a hard time.
As far as watching videos goes, mpv --vo=x11 --profile=sw-fast VIDEOFILE should help. It also works for Youtube URLs (at least when Google decides to not be an asshole about blocking connections).
You can also think about buying an eGPU (external GPU in an enclosure that you connect to your PC/laptop via Thunderbolt).
I assume that you have clean Qubes installation, version 4.2.4 or 4.3.0rc4.
Did you able to patch dom0 and all qubes templates after first boot?
What happen when you try to watch videos?
Maybe he try to watch video from dom0, why you suggest such thing without any information about his issue?!
I know about tweaks I can use, I read the forum and it’s not helping me. It’s not me.
I can’t afford external GPU enclosure at this time nor a new hardware (especially with today’s RAM prices)
This, seconded. There are formats that are safer and formats that are more dangerous, mainly because of compression. PDF, video, audio, and image formats often include compression, which makes them juciy targets for malware.
I’m new but not dumb. I tried many variants including switching browsers and media players and fedora/debian based distros and different kind of settings. And I read the forum. And I already stated that. It’s not me.
I use 4k monitor and it’s a huge factor that doesn’t let me play videos normally. No matter what settings or app I use. And my CPU isn’t that all new and shiny either.
With all due respect, but if you read my message you’d notice that for watching videos I suggested software tweaks, not hardware
As far as watching videos goes, mpv --vo=x11 --profile=sw-fast VIDEOFILE should help. It also works for Youtube URLs (at least when Google decides to not be an asshole about blocking connections).
I use 4k monitor and it’s a huge factor that doesn’t let me play videos normally. No matter what settings or app I use. And my CPU isn’t that all new and shiny either.
Yes, this is going to be problematic. A 4k monitor with a less-than-new CPU may really struggle. I can achieve 60fps for Youtube on a 13th-gen Intel CPU and 2k display resolution but only for 1080p video, otherwise the performance drops noticeably.
For your situation you should have another computer play video for you. Maybe you can set up Kodi on something. Many Qubes users practice compartmentalization by using more than one physical compartment (a computer). I do watch videos on Qubes but they are scaled down. I play video just a bit under 720p. Some videos I recorded with a smartphone aren’t playable, they lag too much. If you need to play videos at 4k then use another computer for that.
Maybe you could do PCI passthrough with another GPU if you had one but unless you are already prepared (not just materially) to do that on your own this forum is probably not able to help you with that.
