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Is Qubes any more efficient in resource usage than a typical VM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

AFAIK it has very limited hardware support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's using Xen, it has amazing hardware support

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It is not like 'very limited'. But generally they are focused around modern Intel CPU, and can have issues on new AMD CPU. And it won't work on very old CPUs without proper virtualization features.

https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ can hint on what Qubes will work better.

Also see the system requirements: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Are you referring to Qubes OS? If so, what do you mean exactly with hardware support?