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> The main downside is no GPU acceleration of anything (framebuffer only), but it's somewhat less limiting than I'd assumed, and most of my machines maintain a dual boot of Ubuntu for anything GPU intensive, though I honestly use it a lot less than I'd assumed.

You are effectively making Qubes useless. The presence of any software that has access to the EFI partition outside Qubes renders it a highly vulnerable entry point for any form of malware, as it gives direct access to Xen.




Oh please. Yes its a potential. But if you're just running stuff provided by Ubuntu & not random crap from wherever this so called threat vector will never happen.

Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good.




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