Sometimes, I play COD, battelfield series and/ or use autodesk’s architecture and autocad. Dual booting qubes and windows 10 wasn’t actually said to be a good idea. So, I ditched windows 10, cause I need qubes.
And if I boot the two OSs, I wanna boot them on two storage devices. Windows on internal HDD and qubes on SanDisk 500GB SSD USB-C, USB 3.1, for PC & Mac & IP55 Rated. So, when I run windows, there’s no way to access qubes partitions.
But If I do manage to run qubes OS on my USB 3.1 ssd, will I still be able to connect and use my other USB storage devices, like; pen drives, wireless usb mouse(this one’s is a must). My laptop has only one USB controller, controlling 3 USB type A, and one USB type C ports. Here’s the pcie devices on my laptop;
As far as I am concerned if I boot qubes from a USB drive, it will not create any sys-usb appVM. And if I put a usb pen drive, it will directly connect to dom0 and be accessible in dom0 file manager. And it is said that “don’t connect USBs to dom0 directly”.
Probably worth mentioning that I can connect a NVMe SSD as well internally. That would give me one internal ssd and one internal hdd. But I don’t think there’s any switch to turn one off, when booting from the other one.
If you only have one controller, then indeed I don’t think you would be
able to use those other devices outwith dom0.
As always, you can mitigate the dangers here by some care - after all,
most people don’t give a second thought to plugging any old USB device in
to their laptops. Not perfect, but better than no Qubes.
I’m afraid I cant see the pci listing, so speculate.
I have an x230 with a switchable NVMe SSD, and I have also seen PCcard
SSD adapters, and Qubes run off SD cards. Are any of these options?
I only download games from from steam, origin and such legitimate providers. No hacks, No patches. And I only use legitimate licensed autodesk products. Never connect any usb devices to my PC without formatting them in an offline-usb-booted kali or any other linux distro.
Do check my last reply but I have another question. Is it possible to install qubes on hdd partition (all data be encrypted), but boot it only if a special usb drive is inserted? And still be able to use sys-usb? And remaining space on hdd be used for windows 10?