I have no idea about the recovery system here.
However Qubes is tricky, it doesn't support most hardwares out there. For example I tried installing it on my fiances laptop, but her laptop's network card wasn't recognized by it, so I could not connect to the internet from there. And my current PC is just too weak for it, so Qubes requires a small certain set of hardwares, and not all of them work on it.
I would also not buy a Laptop if I were you:
- http://alexanderhiggins.com/new-intel-cpus-come-powerful-built-secret-hidden-backdoor/
- https://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-into-intel-and-amd-processors/
- http://wccftech.com/intel-possibly-amd-chips-permanent-backdoors-planted-nsa-updated-1/
If I were you I would just buy an ARM processor based full computer. Laptops are trendy and all, but it seems to me that their security is crap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
It's not perfect but the alternatives are all probably compromized already.
Thank you very much for answer. I will look around in that direction.
The problem is that it's very hard to have security in this day and age, since they are literally coming for everything. I just wrote an article about this, how they are cracking down on private property. They literally want everyone to be a slave: