Trying out the Qubes 4.1 beta on newer Intel and Ryzen devices, and the FrameWork Laptop
A quick post since I have seen various folks ask online whether their laptop is supported by Qubes OS. I decided to grab the beta of the 4.1 release from July and try it out on some laptops (and my current desktop) where a new release would be most helpful, especially on some Ryzen-based systems where the previous 4.0 release did not work well out of the box. Since I also recently got the wonderfully consumer-friendly FrameWork laptop, I would try it out there as well, since I plan to use it as my daily driver OS.
You can see from the table below that there is some decent support for even relatively recently Ryzen CPUs. In fact at …