Qubes OS dual boot question

[Patrick Bouldin]

I have a goal to buy a new laptop, preconfigured with Windows, and then within Windows I will reallocate disk space in order to install Qubes4.0.

In the past with prior versions of Qubes that has sometimes been problematic, is that fixed with 4.0 or still a problem?

Any input on how to proceed?

One data point, while I can recreate windows it's a pain in the butt to get the licensing back on the machine. I can do it, but would like to avoid it.

Thanks,
Patrick

[Sphere]

Question: What's your purpose for using Qubes? Usually the answer is to have very-high level of security. This purpose however, is ultimately defeated once you do OS dual boot as your Qubes installation could be easily infiltrated/modified in the context of the Windows OS that you have dual-booted.

So I suggest having two HDDs or one HDD and one M.2/SATA PCI SSD in your laptop to effectively separate the Windows OS and Qubes OS(By setting a password on the HDD/SSD where Qubes is installed and not entering it when booting on the Windows OS (To effectively protect the UEFI boot partition and also a tag-team protection with LUKS encryption).

If you really want to insist on dual boot however, sad to say but I can't help you with that.

[Patrick Bouldin]

> If you really want to insist on dual boot however, sad to say but I can't help you with that.

Ok, thanks.

[Patrick Bouldin]

Hello, Sphere - apologies, I didn't recognize the help you were giving me was tactually a better approach than dual boot. Thanks for that. Also, I just have to find the details on how I'd approach that solution. If I get a laptop that's preloaded with the SSD+HDD already then I would need to unwind that. Perhaps should just by something that has the SSD already, and add the HDD - but then I need to find the details on how to boot to either one.

Thanks again.