Why does Qubes support mostly Intel Computers (which have ME)

It all depends on how far you want to take it. You gain expenses and lose convenience the further you get to “true 100% privacy and security”. The stuff Qubes recommends is among the best you can get when it comes to x86, but it’s still x86, and unless you’re working with 10+ year old hardware, you’re going to have intentional backdoors.

I would recommend a Qubes certified system if you must have x86. In fact I’m in the market for one myself at the moment because I specifically need Qubes.

@OvalZero beat me to the Talos II but the Lichee Console 4A is a promising RISC-V laptop. They have other form factors too.

I’d still prefer a 4G router plugged into an old laptop. Graphene OS is nice but the hardware is still Google. You can’t de-google the hardware, only the software.

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