Can Qube OS be pre-installed

[diver831]

Does Purism offer its laptops with Qube OS pre-installed.

There are very few companies out there offering pre-installed Qube OS.
The only other company I have heard of is Nitrokey, but they are based in Germany (not confident about the level of tech support they can provide to US-based customers).

I would not mind trying a Purism laptop but if this system does get corrupted/malware, the whole laptop gets corrupted. In Qube OS, each cube is isolated.

Regards,
Uzma

[Skalman]

Hello and welcome to the forum

If you look at the Librem 14 laptop on Purism’s shop page here, they let you choose Operating System, the choices are PureOS or Qubes OS: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-14/

I think that if you choose Qubes OS there, then it means it will be pre-installed.

See also:

New Post: Qubes 4.1 Now Available for Pre-Install

I’m convinced that the Librem 14 is the best laptop for Qubes and our customers seem to agree. Originally, customers who selected Qubes with their order would have to install it themselves with a USB thumb drive we added to the order. More recently we started offering Qubes as a pre-installed option, all set up on the computer before it ships. This required a number of changes to the Qubes OEM project Nitrokey created for their own use so that we could allow customers to reset their disk unlock …

[diver831]

Thank you. I went to their Shop menu and, indeed, Qube OS can be pre-installed ! Their blogs describe the ordering process in detail, which I really appreciate. I look forward to ordering a Purism laptop.

Regards,
Uzma