My New Linux Laptop

Exploring a kfocus ir16 Gen2 laptop. This is the first time using it on stream. So expect shenanigans and things to go wrong!
00:00:00 - The New Laptop
00:17:58 - BIG WinUtil Update
00:23:25 - kfocus apps
00:40:06 - Titus Setup Scripts
01:15:16 - Kfocus Power Tool
01:30:07 - FIXED - Realizing power issue
01:40:09 - Why Linux Laptops .
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[@juhapenttila5733]

Been running Plasma 6 on Arch and Endeavour OS , on one of my laptops and desktops since it was released,i have not have any problems with it.

[@nathanl2966]

On the contrary, I'm about to give up on 6 due to consistent crashing and bugs. At least the crash handler is pretty good, I have a lot of experience with it at this point. 😅

[@Dragonshader]

So 5 month without any problems?

[@yeoldestuff]

Plasma 6.0.x was good, 6.1.x is barely usable due to a truly horrible bug that causes a lot of Plasma components to crash when display power saving is enabled.

[@anonymous-zg7wh]

I use KDE Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS and have never had an issue, and am really enjoying it. @nathanl2966 why did ur version crash?

[@KuleGuy27]

I saw this on stream, I am at 13:11! Oh and also, on KDE you can just change the size of the taskbar, KDE is very customizable.

[@skovgaard79]

your the best. thanks

[@AdamDymitruk]

Been on kubuntu for years. Excellent os

[@Peshyy]

By the looks of it, it's the same laptop that Tuxedo sells. Those laptops have issues with USB-C charging and by default are set to prioritize battery charging instead of performance when on USB-C power. Tuxedo's Control Center has a toggle for this, but the laptop still underperforms on USB-C power, even if the battery is at 100%. You need to be plugged into the barrel charger in order to achieve max performance.

[@AdamDymitruk]

Kubuntu Focus is excellent. Have 4 of their machines!

[@ChuckNorris-lf6vo]

Good job.

[@bes12000]

Im on Arch with KDE 6.3 and wayland and the experience is much better, it used to flicker with the Adaptive sync enabled but not anymore, and used to have a weird mouse issue when gaming, all fixed now.

[@shatterstone3045]

16.7k stars as of today! Getting closer...

[@quenz.goosington]

I think it would be a great idea to use what they did for UI of the bash power utility for linutil, very much in the spirit of winutil!

[@jmbf4191]

The last chapter was so right!

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

Yeah. I'm in houston. It was a full week before we got power back.

[@eliotcole]

After genuinely despising using Windows 11 on some Lenovo laptop, I picked up the HP ZBook Fury G7 I had from a cousin and pushed Debian 12 (Wayland, Gnome) onto it. Anyway, the biggest issue that I've had by far was getting the non-nouveau NVidia drivers working. Because the whole OS drive is LUKS this was painful ... but I got there in the end. :) ( _I am a re-noob to linux_ )

[@akum007]

hi ! i like you scalling settings , what's your settings? cause mine looks so bad even when i use the 125% in ubuntu

[@Nortzzzz]

Snapdragon X elite with linux... A perfect combination

[@georgeindestructible]

Kubuntu huh? I always liked this one.

[@zparihar]

Spiral Linux 12 Bookworm KDE is the best Pre-Configured Debian Distro

[@cybernit3]

When is Kubuntu going to have plasma 6 wayland? I am thinking of switching from Gnome, since I don't like how they banned some Manjaro dev just for mentioning Lunduke, heh. Ps: I thought Christ would get the kfocus laptop with RTX 4090M, well at least he can hook up a eGPU to it if he needs to.

[@alanwparkerap]

Quick question. Because your the only one that i can find that seems to know. I am trying to move to Linux, i run Debian testing on all my servers. I am now trying to get programs on my desktop which runs Debian testing. Davinci resolve is the big one it refuses to install because of missing dependencies not available on testing repo. How do i install the needed packages that exist in the stable repo. This is the only thing keeping me on windows.

[@KisaJeweler]

I'm not sure, maybe it's a dumb answer, but add a Debian stable repo and download the dependencies that u need from it. But it's not recommended to mix versions to be fair

[@KisaJeweler]

Also, u can try to build DaVinci resolve in the container, harder but will not destroy the system due to incapable versions of packages

[@NoiseStaticBlur]

Your biggest issue is debian. This kind of issue is exactly why I moved to arch and close to pure arch derviatives (aka not manjaro). Because I know I can get the packages I need and that they will work.

[@asunavk69]

My legion 5 at least complains whenever i use a lower power charger, all of which are lenovo chargers, the one that came has 300w but i got it down to 90w and the bios will say "slow charger, make sure to use the one that came with the computer" and ye i did hear about not really being recommended to use even if the machine charges. Both EndeavourOS and windows 10, do rather well still even with dgpu on, just cant push it as much naturally.

[@findinggreatness]

Hey they sell that button at amazon the done for you button

[@views8962]

I wonder if you can replace the Ubuntu super key with something else

[@tkan2653]

with me 30 degrees C or upper are too familiar to me in Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam

[@QHawk7]

*Are you gonna ditch it for Cosmic Desktop?*

[@TheUGUltimatumYT]

How to mount ntfs drive on kubuntu

[@makingprogress-m4v]

Can you show how to Dual boot linux, example debian and arch

[@krzysiek2768]

Personally I prefer linux (kde) for 4k than windows. In windows there is propably better game scaling but for other things linux has decent text scaling that doesnt force windows and images to render in lower res.

[@samnwakefield2032]

Opensuse tumbleweed kde is the way to go...all other stuff is just noise...recap cosmic pop os is the thing now try it out .

[@Wol-gx6qj]

Is this the entire stream that you did yesterday because I could not watch it all ?

[@lovwanshichetan]

It's edited.

[@TitusTechTalk]

Yes, I edit out the pauses, so the video playback will flow better.

[@Wol-gx6qj]

@@TitusTechTalk Nice, will watch it fully, my timezone is completely different lol I think it was 1 am when u were streaming

[@BotYoutubevertification]

I made my Gentoo KDE look like Windows 7

[@thecrow3461]

1:42 i have a 13,3 inch laptop with a 4k display. Benefits? None at this screen size. Downsides? lots but mostly scaling and battery life. My next laptop won't have a 4k screen.

[@HaroldCrews]

I'm not a big fan of System76 computers. I bought a Lemur 6 laptop from them in 2015 or 2016. It came with a half working space key. Not good. I later bought a replacement keyboard and the replacement also did not have a fully functioning space key. Because of that it mostly sat in the laptop case unused for a couple of years. Later I decided to use it for distro hopping. I still have no idea what was wrong with it, but if I ran anything other than Pop!_OS the laptop would suddenly shutdown as if it had no power even though it was plugged in. Just yesterday I drug it out again and installed UB Bluefin on it and half of the keys were mapped to numbers instead of the correct letters. I just gave up and re-installed Pop!_OS on it. I'll probably just end up giving it away to a niece or nephew.

[@StaffyDoo]

That’s awful!!! May I ask why didn’t you send it back the moment you detected the issue with the spacebar?

[@Razvan8554]

this is the reasson for why i use internet and youtube , is to see youre Linux Laptop ! Linux Laptop ! ::)))))))))) I love how phatetical is this title : " My new Linux Laptop " , but he don't show you nothing in reallity !

[@andreasrichman5628]

too bad KDE still can't do column style folder view, like macos.

[@AhmedMohamed-qy3mx]

I cant use backlight on my laptop after installing linux .it’s not the first time i have used linux but this new laptop i got i just couldn’t make it work man! So i had to use windows again!

[@mauriciorodrigues7178]

KDE for me is a tangle of menus and settings, honestly a complete mess, it looks like a worse Windows.

[@fortifyve]

That is not its biggest issue, because customization does exist and is powerful with KDE. I think its biggest issue is it's utterly littered with bugs, everywhere, all the time, no matter what, bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs. GNOME has its own unique drawbacks but is 100x more stable. I'm personally ditching both of them for the cosmic DE when it has a stable release.

[@ismbks]

i dislike arch community as a whole but it's the only distro with sane defaults and that doesn't compromise on anything really

[@wnslynx]

Clevo made?

[@chriss2595]

So, setting up a laptop for an hour or two and doing nothing, while other people install an OS and then 10 to 20 apps and get to work.

[@andrukthegreat]

realised u don t know to nav through the GUI. And when you installed your font but you Didn't Apply IT !! :)) You are too jumpy and in a hurry !!!!!!

[@LoganKaval]

I've Got Only 984 Packages On Arch Linux

[@peterjansen4826]

You use a laptop? The torture. 😏

[@nishantshokeen4279]

Easy to carry, how do you carry yours?

[@TitusTechTalk]

You know I prefer desktop, but on the go sometimes I have to move to a laptop.

[@peterjansen4826]

@@nishantshokeen4279 I limit computing on the go as much as possible. I do have a laptop for when I have no other choice. Laptops often (so not always) are a solution for a problem which shouldn't exist, it should suffice if people take their own keyboard and mouse and just use a desktop-PC at their office or university or whatever. In the case of a company and mostly at school (depending on what you study of course) it would suffice to share 1 PC with 10 or so people and just give everybody his own monitor and possibly a keyboard and mouse (I would prefer to use my own anyway). I dislike using a laptop because of bad ergonomics and the noisy fan. The monitor is much too small and stands much too low, the touchpad gets in the way of the keyboard because for some weird reason they still put that below the keyboard instead of next to it while there is plenty of space next to it (note that the touchpad can easily be a 1/5th of that size if you set a proper sentivity) and I never had a latpop with a proper keyboard. In regard to ergonomics, the keyboard is too small, that in combination with the low standing monitor makes you sit with a very bad posture (endorotated shoulders, not a straight back). The keyboard being attached to the monitor makes that you can't both have the monitor at the right distance (should be closer) and have the right distance for the keyboard (that should be further away).

[@peterjansen4826]

@@nishantshokeen4279 The laptop is a solution for a problem which mostly should not exist, in most cases a stationary desktop-PC would be a better alternative if done right. The biggest problem with a laptop for me is that it is highly unergonomical to use it. I do have one for emergencies, I prefer to not use it.

[@johanb.7869]

I still have a massive skill gap, but I just don't like learning and I'm to dumb anyway😭

[@ACOnetwork]

If something is interesting to you I encurage to learn and experiment not only because you learn new things but also you have fun doing it. Just break through the "wall" and start learning. I do not know your life story what you went through but every single person in the world is limiting his/her potential. What ever you decide, good luck and have amazing positive day 😁

[@johanb.7869]

@@ACOnetwork thanks😉 you too

[@ACOnetwork]

@@johanb.7869 Thank you 👍

[@peterjansen4826]

Usually summers are much more brutal in the Netherlands than in Texas because most people here don't have AC, also the humidity is quite high. We typically have a few heatwaves in the Netherlands, around 3-5, and those often last 1-2 weeks. In those weeks it gradually gets hootter, it starts with temperatures of around 30 degrees C and then it gradually increases to 36-42 degrees C with a humidity of 70-99%, especially when the weather is about to change the humidity gets very high due to the western wind over the Atlantic ocean. That humidity easily makes it feel as if it is over 10 degrees warmer. Where I currently live on the lower floor it gradually gets upp to 29/29.5 degrres Celsius inside, with that humidity that is brutal for 24/7 living in that heat or warmer (outside). The only solution is to take a cool shower every 2-3 hours, put your feet in cold water (which warms up quickly) and put a soaking wet towel on your shoulders and neck or make your T-shirt soaking wet.

[@Joromonni]

Huh?

[@Aoitori365]

kde 6.1 is great

[@RazoBeckett.]

installs nala and don't even use it after installing it.

[@Aoitori365]

chrome normie

[@villageroma]

Crapuntu it's Just spywere

[@Wol-gx6qj]

He did make a video on the downfall of Ubuntu maybe you should watch it incase u have a debate with an ubuntu user lol

[@Neavris]

Why almost 2 hours long? Get to the frigging point! It takes so long for almost nothing.

[@chrisrgutierrez]

Why are you using a pointless distribution?

[@UNATCOHanka]

Just use Windows, Titus

[@user-pu8ks1up4r]

First

[@bucklinspring]

ok

[@ariel_chess]

Congrats

[@mediocreape]

is this the framework laptop? edit- it's not