Subj : Re: Purism Librem 14v1 w/ Qubes - First Thoughts
To   : Greenlfc
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Mon May 16 2022 07:05:44

On 11 May 2022, Greenlfc said the following...
 
 Gr> So a few weeks into it, and here are some updated thoughts.
 Gr> 
 Gr> - If you use virtual backgrounds in Microsoft Teams, prepare to be
 Gr> disappointed.
 Gr> - Still haven't got the VPN set up yet, but I've also not really been
 Gr> working on it.  For now, the VPN running in my Windows HVM is good
 Gr> enough for most tasks.
 Gr> - I can't get Remmina to reliably connect through work's Remote Desktop
 Gr> Gateway.  I think it's a TLS negotiation thing, but I haven't been able
 Gr> to investigate.
 Gr> - It's a fail on me for not doing my due diligence, but the CPU *is* a
 Gr> little underwhelming for purpose.  It works fine, but really we should
 Gr> have more than six cores in a machine built around virtualization.
 Gr> - For some reason my webcam, which I use as a microphone, will
 Gr> occasionally get "stuck" and I can't get it reconnected to the VM I use
 Gr> for video conferencing until I bounce the VM.
 Gr> 
 Gr> Outside of the videoconferencing challenges it's been great, though. 
 Gr> I'll probably keep a lightweight "insecure" machine around for VC.


Nice review Greenlfc; will any of the issues you've found that aren't hardware 
issues planned for a software fix anytime soon? Has anyone else reported 
similar problems?

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