Tuxedo OS 2 is one of the BEST KDE Plasma distributions (+ Tuxedo Stellaris 16 review)

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00:00 Intro
00:28 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace
01:22 What is Tuxedo OS?
02:24 Better hardware support and drivers
04:06 Semi-Rolling: the best of both worlds
05:03 Tuxedo Control Center
06:32 Other changes
07:49 Is it any good?
08:49 Stellaris 16: Linux gaming laptop
13:56 Tuxedo OS on a Tuxedo PC
Tuxedo OS is a semi-rolling release Linux distro that Tuxedo makes, and is freely available to download on any computer.
Tuxedo OS comes with KDE plasma, it gets rid of snaps, they have their own repos for additional drivers and apps, they have a hybrid rolling release model for the desktop and drivers, they have their own custom kernel with better hardware support, and a few very useful utilities.
The repos contain their custom kernel, which include patches that they tested and implemented before the mainline kernel, so newer hardware works better. The fixes they develop themselves are also mainlined of course.
The Tuxedo OS repos include more up to date drivers, they have firmware for their own devices, they have packages for web browsers that Ubuntu only provides as Snaps, and for a few up to date apps that aren't in the Ubuntu repos, or are outdated.
While the base system and base packages are from Ubuntu, they ship drivers, a linux kernel, and the KDE plasma desktop on a rolling release model, which means you're always getting the latest versions of your KDE apps and desktop, and a recent kernel version, and the associated drivers.
Tuxedo OS also embarks the Tuxedo Control center. It's an open source graphical app that lets you set your power profile, between a few presets, like extreme powersave, high performance, quiet, and more. You can also change the battery charging options to improve the battery's lifespan.
Tuxedo OS enables os-prober. In the boot options, you'll find a web based reinstall option as well.
The Stellaris 16 is the latest entry in the Stellaris line. It comes with a 16:10 2560 x 1600 panel, that has very vivid colors, 350 nits of brightness, and perfect viewing angles. It can also refresh at 240hz.
You also get a core i9 13900HX, which is a 16 core, 32 threads CPU, that can go up to 5.4Ghz.
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You can pair that with an RTX 4060 Mobile, or up to a 4090,.
RAM options go from 16 GB of 4800Mhz DDR5 to 64 gigs of 5600mhz DDR5, and for storage, you can get up to 2 4terabytes PCIE 4 SSDs.
In terms of ports, you get 2 USB A 3.2gen 2 ports, one USB A 3.2 gen 1, a full size SD card slot, a headphone jack,, the ports for the Aquaris cooling sytem, HDMI 2.1, 2.5 gigs ethernet, and Thunderbolt 4.
The keyboard is really excellent, with good key travel, and a quiet sound. You can also get it with a mechanical keyboard.
THe touchpad isn't glass, but it's very smooth, even though it's really small for this form factor.
Speakers are decent, with a good amount of bass, but they'll start saturating at max volume. They're bottom firing so if you place the laptop on a soft surface, you'll muffle them easily.
And the mic and webcam are potato quality as is unfortunately too often the case.
As per battery life, you get a 99Wh battery, on the powersave mode, using the integrated GPU, it lasted for 7 hours with youtube videos playing in a loop over wifi in Firefox, with the display at 240hz.
So, on a Tuxedo computer, you get a few cool things on top of the default Tuxedo experience.
You can control the color and brightness of the keyboard backlight, you can control the webcam, and its resolution, framerate, brightness, contrast, exposure, dynamic range, color balance.
TOMTE automatically recognizes the model you're using, and it checks for the drivers and packages that will give you the best experience.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@dnkmmr69420]

too bad that tuexedo os is not immutable

[@Winnetou17]

@@dnkmmr69420 Not everybody wants an immutable OS. And people buying from Tuxedo, for now, I think are more into non-immutable ones. The immutable ones are perfect for people who don't tinker with their system.

[@john27638]

As a German, the biggest reason to use Tuxedo OS is that I get customer support in my native language for my Tuxedo Laptop if I have any issues. I like the idea of getting professional help if I have issues on my work machine that I need to work reliably.

[@markh.6687]

"Benutzerfreundlichkeit" (User-Friendliness, stressed by Commodore Computer's Jack Tramiel decades ago when the VC-20/VIC-20 came out.

[@howling-wolf]

As a german i dont care about german support. In my workplace i can ask literally anyone in my department for help if i have trouble with anything. Also my english is good enough...

[@thomasrichards8055]

Das ist ja toll! Es gibt auf der Welt nicht nur Englisch, also finde ich sogar als Englander es komisch, dass um technische Support zu bekommen, man muss Englisch sprechen und verstehen.

[@WohaoG]

@@howling-wolf You are not every german. The original comment wasn't speaking for every german.

[@teklife]

that is definitely cool. i wish tuxedo the best. they seem to be a cool company and putting out good products and a very polished OS, based off of an already amazing and very polished OS.

[@chaoticpanda6272]

There is a serious shortage of entry level budget Linux laptops.

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

Entry level tends to work best with higher volumes, and Linux doesn't mix well with high volume.

[@teklife]

not really, if you consider the 2nd hand market. that's always been the budget linux laptops for me

[@chaoticpanda6272]

@@teklife but they don't come linux preinstalled.

[@teklife]

@@chaoticpanda6272 yea true. Always irritating to see no Linux computers at stores

[@markh.6687]

@@teklife That was tried years ago, and it didn't work, because most users were used to Windows, and they got upset finding out they bought this Linux thingy. Then they returned the Linux computers for Windows models. Retailers said "We're done with Linux".

[@mirage809]

Tuxedo OS is looking solid. I'm a happy camper on Fedora, but if things there ever went belly up then this is something I'd consider switching to. Good to see them maintaining their own kernel and Mesa driver. The ones in Ubuntu can get a tad ancient.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Speaking of Fedora...

[@teklife]

that is interesting. in open source software and development, i remember reading YEARS ago, like 2010, on Ubuntu's site, how their development works, with graphical charts and how many patches are pushed to upstream. so, i think every downstream project can and should benefit their upstream. i wonder if the kernel and mesa driver they maintain will get pushed upstream to benefit Ubuntu and Debian, or will it just stay there in Tuxedo OS only. i hope their great changes are contributions which will help everyone in the free OS sphere, including Arch, Fedora, Opensuse, etc.

[@calabi-yau4894]

Great video, I really appreciate the highlighting of what is unique about the distros you review, i.e. what do they do themselves that no one else does. That granular control of performance is awesome.

[@yairmohr]

Great. Another distro to think about just a week after I chose to delete Microsoft Malware OS... Emmm, sorry, Windows 11, from my laptop and install Mint - which took me several days, since Acer has an evil, evil BIOS system that made it IMPOSSIBLE to move smoothly. Even now, after several attempts at starting over, it's still buggy and laggy for some unknown reason, despite working great on both my other PCs.

[@calabi-yau4894]

I have an Acer Aspire 5 and used a USB flash drive with Ventoy to try out several distros before committing it to a Linux one. ZorinOS didn't work at all for me but PopOS! installation was pretty seamless. Surprised to hear that Linux Mint had installation issues. It's making me think that it would be great to have a resource where people who have specific brands of laptops/desktops can easily find out which distros are most compatible.

[@teyathebirb8922]

​@@calabi-yau4894like the ProtonDB of Linux distros!

[@voogarix]

Any arch based distro (rolling release is preferred) should work without problem. Did you give it a try?

[@alihassanjatt8898]

Debian always work for me give a try but it is difficult to install for beginners

[@koghs]

Tough luck bro, Mint is an absolute piece of garbage

[@FengLengshun]

I actually used this before I messed around too much and decided to use KDE neon for further playing around. It's pretty good, it's tough deciding whether I like Tuxedo OS or KFocus more. I do really like the powerplan app they have, and their automated power adjustment feels like the only one that works without major compromises. I think it's a solid alternative if you don't align with Kubuntu, Neon, or KFocus. I honestly just wish that they also have FerenOS theming/UX options but it's clear that it's... not easy to accomplish. If I could have that and have an immutable version of Tuxedo OS I'd probably use it full-time on my laptop

[@theodoros_1234]

Other OEMs usually package some mediocre software with their devices, but Tuxedo seems to have made some nice and actually useful stuff, and that's without even installing bloatware alongside.

[@srpenguinbr]

Yeah, it seems great not only for a Linux distro, but for OEMs in general

[@ccroy2001]

I just installed Tuxedo OS on my ThinkPad. I really like KDE Neon, but miss having a power level setting similar to Windows. My setup is pretty stock so switching didn't take too long, an hour or 2. So far so good.

[@missingfaktor]

I got my Tuxedo Stellaris 26 a couple of weeks ago, and I'm absolutely loving it! Although there are certainly some bugs that I need to get resolved soon with the customer support. Not completely surprised as I've never had a Linux setup that was bug-free to start with.

[@someITGuy]

"Wichtelmännchen" is a word that should definitely be used more often. Fun fact: It could also be used as a literally translation of the word "Gnome". Which bears some humour since Tuxedo OS is based on KDE . 😄

[@kbhasi]

Ooh! I've seen them sponsor your videos before. Syatem76 has 'Pop_OS!', and now Tuxedo has 'Tuxedo OS'! I really like that they went with Plasma for their desktop instead of anything GTK-based.

[@hskaushikmurthy89]

This looks great. I will try this out. Thanks for the video❤

[@didzisuzulins2092]

Thanks for pointing out Fedora repo of Tuxedo Control Center. I will try it out on my 4 years old Tuxedo laptop. Seems it was not available back in 2019, because I remember I was a bit disappointed finding out they support only Ubuntu based distros. Afterwards I didn't try to search if things has changed. 🙂

[@gwgux]

Thanks for covering this. I didn't know much about this distro at all prior to this video. Looks to be a solid KDE Plasma focused distro which as a fan of that DE myself I can appreciate. Though I do wonder how much they actually need Kubuntu for. If they're doing rolling release on their kernel and driver updates, KDE, and their own config utilities, I wonder if they eventually plan on just cutting over to their own base system at some point.

[@electroC833]

Thank's to your reviews recently purchase a TUXEDO Pulse 15 - Gen2 and I am really happy with this combo (hardware+software) !!!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Awesome! It’s a great device!

[@oladrolahola]

How fast is their delivery?

[@electroC833]

@@oladrolahola I live in Europe, so was 10 days.

[@jolynele2587]

tuxedo os works best in tuxedo devices, and it looks really interesting. i do think some day ill get one of their 14-inch offerings because i am a sucker for tkl or smaller keyboards and i like my laptops to be portable

[@notpublic7149]

Thank you so much!!! ❤

[@false_positive]

I have it on my clevo laptop, i was a distrohopper until i found tuxedo os 😌 only issue so far is closing the lid does not lock the screen, even though the setting is made…

[@markh.6687]

"Your colleagues will staple your forehead to your desk!" ROFLMAO!!

[@markh.6687]

"If you're lucky....NO, WAIT! If you're unlucky!"

[@Patrick-rd5vh]

Interesting, it might be what I am looking for. I will definitly try Tuxedo OS

[@bentels5340]

Rolling, heavily tested, KDE base... sounds like OpenSuSE.

[@njdarda]

i'm slowly turning to VanillaOS acolyte. NIX seems incredibly interesting too. But for Tuxedo's laptop I wouldn't change it. Nothing beats the software developed, maintained and tested by the hardware manufacturer.

[@reachtrev69]

That pop sound bug mentioned used to jump scare me like nothing else.

[@a2n-]

Have the InfinityBook Pro Gen8 (MK1), and beside the webcam and the mic this is a banger

[@kingklump]

I seriously wish I could afford one of these laptops. It's awesome!

[@lizaonion7109]

Same here and Nick’s videos always get me more excited for them. Perhaps some day… Meanwhile I will try installing tuxedo os when I find the time.

[@kote315]

Okay, I tried it a bit and I generally liked it a lot. It really feels like kubuntu without all the stupid things from Canonical (or like Mint with KDE, if you wish). I would not say that the system is bloated, but there are a couple of extra utilities from Tuxedo (useless on my hardware). They can be removed, but I've noticed that this removes some kernel modules, so be careful. Also, shortcuts from the menu remain and they need to be removed manually, which is sad. For some programs, German language packs are installed by default, and I had to manually install some Russian langpacks (for example, for Firefox). Changes in KDE Plasma are not significant, easy to change to the stock state. Almost all the necessary programs are in the repositories. And yet I miss AUR. I broke everything (okay, not everything, just Dolphin) pretty quickly. But this is purely my fault, a normal user should not experience this.

[@johanb.7869]

Looks very interesting this Tuxedo OS, but at the moment I'm very happy with KDE Neon. Maybe in the future😉The theme I would change it immediately with Qogir dark and Papirus dark icons. BTW no snaps on KDE Neon either.

[@NahrAlma]

Interesting. I'm using KDE Neon right now. Now their hardware is clearly out of my price range, but I may give Tuxedo OS a shot. Sounds nice on paper at least.

[@skururu312]

Hi Nick, thanks for your great content. I need your advice, I have a Schenker Vision 16 pro (Schenker is part of tuxedo ). The device is very similar to the Infinity Book from tuxedo. Do you think I can get Tuxedo OS including drivers and control center to run on my device? Unfortunately, I can no longer return the device and suffer a lot with Windows 😢

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

12:03 I don't like touch pads that have left and right buttons below touch thing, clicking can also register as touch

[@peterschmidt9942]

Its definitely one of the distros I wanted to checkout. Seems to have all the advantages over Ubuntu installs with little downside. I've seen something like Tomte on other distros (maybe Manjaro?). Its cool if you want to use mainly open source drivers and propitiatory for other that need it (Nvidia).

[@johndescy7904]

Well, they shipped an update that broke support for the internal(!) keyboard. Customer support told me I would have to do a BIOS update. They also told me that this was very easy to do with minimal risk, but that it would void my warranty until it was successfully done, after which my warranty would be reactivated. Questionable.

[@deloller2452]

Wtf

[@johndescy7904]

Update: Another update rendered my machine unusable. First I could not switch to another user in the GUI. Login had no mouse support and only let me input my password for my current user. Second user was not selectable in any way. Tried several things without luck. Tuxedo support asked me to reinstall Mesa drivers. Now things got worse: Right hand side of the screen only shows every second line of pixels, and screen content is sized down to about two thirds of the screen. Tuxedo supoort tells me the only way to fix this is backing up my data and reinstalling the OS. I'm getting serious Win98 vibes. :-D

[@ohmygosh6176]

What I love about it is that you have full CPU voltage control which allows you to extend your battery life. By the way I hate Snap with passion

[@abelolsen9656]

I'm on distro-hopping right now, testing some stuff to desktop or trying to change my AMD 6600 settings, so far, I haven't found any for the fan speeds, and all the different OS are set to max speed. Not sure if it's GPU fans or AIO fans. I know I can set the AIO fan speeds at BIOS, but Linux seems override the fan speed, so I hope the Control Center will work on my PC.

[@rockymarquiss8327]

Thanks. I didn't know about this - I think I found my favorite Linux distro... :)

[@rockymarquiss8327]

I'm going to have to take it back - VLC won't play my DVD - I can plug in the DVD player into my Linux Mint and it works just fine...

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

Edit: I decided against tuxedo os. Calamaris the installer constantly crashes during formatting. It appears that the current installer has trouble with luks2 encryption and LVMs. It just Seg-Faults. I'll use Debian 12 but change the repos from stable to testing, so I get it to be a, semi-rolling release. I consider dualbooting it besides Fedora. While Fedora will remain my primary system. Although I just switched recently. I always wanted to go with a, RHEL related distro. Still when I occasionally need a Debian base but want the semi-rolling release Tuxedo is at the top of the list.

[@NordicFrog]

A year ago I told myself that I would not be distrohopping any more. But Tuxedo OS looks very tempting.

[@RogueRen]

I like how Tuxedo OS sounds, and I downloaded the iso to try it out instead of Pop!_OS. But like very other time I've tried to use anything else, I immediately had issues. This time being that the installer ISO had a kernel panic before I even installed it... I will forever be stuck on Pop!_OS at this rate...

[@marloelefant7500]

When you test graphics performance, you usually do gaming tests. How does this relate to performance in applications like video cut? A gaming laptop that can play for example Cyberpunk, can also be used for video cut or which requirements does it have?

[@user-hs8yi8mj4s]

When switching graphics, do you still have to reboot though? A year ago the commented under another reviewer that they intended to implement a seamless switch , much like on Windows. Is it already there?

[@azenyr]

Seems like the perfect OS to recommend to everybody and me. I hate cosmic desktop and gnome stuff, so this having KDE and a rolling KDE release is gucci

[@ryuketsuekiofficial]

I've been wanting to get a Tuxedo laptop for a while now. I want one for video editing using DaVinci Resolve. What should I get?

[@aldanesh2680]

How you can know if the control centre would work on your laptop from another manufacturer?

[@sylvershadow1247]

Oh nice! I've been using Pop!_OS repo on top of Neon because of kernel and the semi-rolling nature. I may just switch to that.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah that will be much more stable than a Frankenstein Pop 😁

[@sylvershadow1247]

@@TheLinuxEXP LMAO, you have no idea.

[@themadoneplays7842]

Big issue with tuxedo OS is that if you already have a linux install it wont work, The installer hangs if you reuse partitions like /home as it sets up permissions. I tried both versions and both failed to install without me having to back up my /home directory. Sure I make constant backups, but it's a lot to do just to try a distro out for a spin on real hardware. This is something no other distro I have tried has done, not even arch.

[@teklife]

are these Tuxedo OS additions at least available in the KDE Store?

[@julian.morgan]

Very interesting - I install Linux on old hardware (mostly laptops) for non-techy friends and I typically choose between Mint and Pop OS - this is a definite contender going forward. I was really impressed by how Pop OS makes it super easy to install a recovery partition and to upgrade firmware on Lenovo laptops - less impressed with how crashable their Pop Shop is - but I guess all their resources are going into Rust development just now. I also get really annoyed about the "bloat" nonsense - I suspect this mostly comes from people who got used to measuring drive storage and maybe even RAM module size in MBs a while back and haven't really moved on since ;)

[@ronobvious1785]

It sounded good, so I tried it out. This is the craziest installer I've ever seen. It dropped me straight into the installer on boot. I went through a few steps, and then it looked like it crashed and dumped me out to the desktop. The only clue that it hadn't crashed was that it remembered my Wi-Fi. I launched the installer from the desktop, it went a bit further, and "crashed" again. Once more I was back at what looked like the beginning of the installer. I kicked it off once more, and this time everything completed. Now that it's finally up and running it looks pretty good. Going to use it for a while and see how it does. --- Update --- Discover software center crashes constantly.

[@MaryamMaqdisi]

Running Debian Testing here, I get random crashes on some Discover related services all the time so I don’t know if this is Tuxedo’s fault but it sucks anyway lol

[@user-cv9pg8lo4j]

I'm interested in TUXEDO OS and I want to know the hardware requirements before I try it, however, I can't find any information about it.

[@allanisme3826]

I use tuxedo control center on a gigabyte amd laptop that they don't sell running arch I was surprised at the features

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah their control center is FOSS so it’s also packaged by the community for other distros!

[@jsizemo]

I kinda find it frustrating to have to go to a derivative fork of a mainline distribution, in this case Ubuntu, to get more hardware support. Why aren’t all these additional kernel modules and libraries already in the mainstream distros , e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, or even the Kernel itself?

[@MaryamMaqdisi]

Things are usually ported upstream, but it can take time until it’s merged + I would bet most people run older kernels anyway (like me) so it will take a while until they benefit from these changes. Other changes may break things for some devices so they may be doomed to forever be outside the main kernel.

[@HerrDoktorWeberMD]

...kinda regretting going with ASUS instead of Tuxedo for my gaming laptop now, but still making the most of it I guess. I just really wanted something with a good AMD card and Tuxedo seemed to hold back on the AMD side of things, heavily favoring NVIDIA, at least at the time I looked for it early this year.

[@BytebroUK]

Hi Nick. Did you yet find a Linux installer that says "Oo - you've got a 128Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD. Shall we put the system on the SSD and /home on the HDD?" Because doing that stuff manually *every*time* is getting old.

[@wrong1029]

Top-spec Stellaris 16 w/ 5y warrany is $5140 + $99 shipping to US. Over 5 years (absolute minimum life given the warranty) this is $1047.80 a year or $87.32/month. Considering the insane specs RTX-4090 + 96GB DDR5 + 8TB NVME, well tested software stack, and highly competent customer support, I think it's a great deal. At least for someone like me, I just want to clone my dotfiles and repos and start working. I never liked the config crazy aspect of linux beyond configuring my everyday tools like tmux and nvim. Plus the build quality actually looks very solid which is rare for small company. Apologies if I sound like a shill, I've been exploring options for laptops for a while now and this one seems to check every box for me.

[@xrobertcmx]

I want to try this out but haven't broken my Tumbleweed Install yet.

[@MsMaciek]

i'm impressed

[@tonigon5767]

I am now tempted to switch one of machines from Kubuntu to Tux OS...

[@lisovyy]

I had some troubles with Tuxedo OS2 on my Tuxedo InfinityBook, which was pretty weird. The official ISO messed up the GRUB loader during installation. I gave it a couple of tries, thinking I could fix it with some bash commands, but honestly, it was just not a pleasant experience for me. So, I gave up in the end.

[@rjbse]

No official support?

[@lisovyy]

I don't think that's the case. I'm leaning more towards the immaturity of the distro in certain areas, like the installer in this case. @@rjbse

[@vitoru1000]

Now we need a Tuxedo x Framework Collab for the perfect Linux notebook

[@joaopauloalbq]

I liked the OS and the laptop. I expected to see Tuxedo's control center made with Qt instead of web crap technology.

[@Linux_ASMR]

Tuxedo OS looks good on a non Tuxedo PC, but I think that it really shines on their own hardware. I'm not really convinced that I'd use Tuxedo OS over another KDE distro like Fedora on non Tuxedo hardware, but that's just me. Their hardware looks really good and with a tailored Tuxedo OS (pun intended) it makes for a good out of the box "it just works" experience. Given the higher price point of their hardware though, I'm kinda expecting to have an easy premium experience with the device, but it seems like a solid brand.

[@LuffyPortal]

Switched from Windows 11 to Tuxedo OS and holy shit was it a upgrade, although I have had some issues those have been ironed out and ive been having so much fun.

[@joli22]

please let this (especially the control center with OC functions etc) work on my XMG laptop aswell...

[@leonidas14775]

I wish that instead of being thousands of different distros, there would be more customization tools for a handful of distros. Its always a tradeoff.

[@Luc484]

Why are these powerful machines still stuck with resolutions different from 4K? 4K is already old nowadays. Have you ever reviewed the Tuxedo Gemini 17 Gen 1? That appears to be a good machine for engineers, with a 4K display. Thanks for sharing your ideas! Very interesting!

[@trevorford8332]

I wish someone would combine a few of the distro to make it better!! some of the features/options I do like!!

[@FengLengshun]

My advice: learn how each distro did what they did, and slowly try to copy it. A lot of the resources can be replicated, it's just a hassle a lot of the time, but once you've done it? It's beautiful. This satisfaction is why I love ublue-os, NixOS, and VanillaOS.

[@xeiAiex]

They’re all the same. Preinstalled packages with the Linux kernel and a package manager. You can do the same things on any distribution as any other

[@FengLengshun]

@@xeiAiex I wouldn't really say they're all the same. Sure, it's all about packages and configs. But getting those packages installed in an efficient manner can often be annoying compared to just starting with a base that's close to what you want. In addition, there's the matter of default repos - some distro have a different default repo, with its own versions and list of packages, and once you start mixing repo then you start to deal with dependency hell. Sometimes it really does worth it to switch to a specific distro to get specific experiences.

[@AlexanderAddams]

Lfs make your own

[@xeiAiex]

@@FengLengshun Linux is Linux so choose the one you like best and set it up how you want it. You don't need some random guy's custom config, boutique distro because it has "features". That was my point, basically.

[@kici5777]

Can you easily install Waydroid on it or will there be Kernel Errors cause of Tuxedo-Kernel..? 🤔

[@mentalmarvin]

Tomte is more like a gnome than a leprechaun.

[@JustABigFan2010]

OS/2 used to be a great operating system back in the 90's. I am glad Tuxedo has taken it over from IBM.

[@kiankazem3846]

Can I get drivers and kernel on Arch? Is it easy or headache?

[@fetB]

I was about to install neon because of the up to date kde. I guess tuxedo might be a better choice. Im also german, xSD

[@tomsmansvards]

I have a Tuxedo laptop with Fedora as that's my first choice of a distro. I've been using it for more than 5 years. Keyboard backlighs work half of the time. No, much less then half... Lately I've just given up on them. (I know they work because they light up at boot time (and sometimes after their stupid driver install), and recently I bought a new keyboard from them). I'm not a fan of using some memory hogging control centres either, that's something from Windows. I think that a real Linux laptop must have everything built in the kernel. Probably Thinkpads are more Linux friendly than this. I would love to love Tuxedo, but it really feels like just a laptop with Linux slapped on it with some workarounds (and "Custom OS") to make it work. Not something built for Linux.

[@harrisontu264]

The more I watch your videos, the more I think I wanna buy a Linux server with a GPU in it, to do on my AI stuff. I currently use a Mac laptop, which is terrible for AI sometimes, because nothing really supports the new Apple Silicon, architecture quite yet, but I really really love it for daily tasks, so I think two computer set up would actually work really well. There’s absolutely no way I’m going back to windows anytime in the near future.

[@AggressiveHayBale]

From what I see renting the cloud server would be better for you (if you don't mind renting it from a corpo/having it at home).

[@Mekuso8]

I've been using Tuxedo OS on a Tuxedo laptop for a while and generally really like it. My only issue is that the graphics will sometimes bug out horribly after suspending (which it'll do by default after some time of inactivity). This will often show the contents of your programs even before you've unlocked the device, which is absolutely unacceptable from a privacy and security standpoint, especially in a business context. I understand that it's unlikely that Tuxedo wrote the code which causes the bug (probably something with the combination of Nvidia and KDE) but that's no excuse, as Tuxedo are the ones that chose to combine these technologies into a package they charge a fair amount of money for. Some fix or workaround for this is absolutely and urgently needed. Other than that, I can only recommend Tuxedo.

[@bluetoothspeakergaming]

It's an X11 thing, switching to Wayland fixes it

[@Mekuso8]

@@bluetoothspeakergaming if it's really that simple, then Tuxedo OS should run Wayland by default, because X11 isn't "stable" if it can potentially leak business secrets or whatever

[@vikidope]

My installation was stuck at 94% saying removing packages.. What should I do ??

[@pourlaviande1943]

the Pulse 15 gen 2 has been discarded by Tuxedo. Any idea when and if they will launch the next gen ?

[@HiDeguild]

I've never had a problem with keyboard size in an open space workplace. I don't expect anyone would even hear it over the chainsaws or chipper truck.

[@brads2041]

I like the idea of tuxedo machines but the dollar conversion costs plus shipping plus likely some kind of customs fees makes it too expensive 😢

[@jd31068]

So, we're saying Tuxedo OS should suit most users?

[@blastygamez]

GNULinux needs to gets it’s MIDI shit together cuz it’s horrible atm especially with wine, thank God I am a programmer hopefully I can implement my own MIDI handeling program and library… (don’t get me wrong I love Linux and GNU)

[@kadirunaloglu523]

Out of pure curiosity: Is it a good idea to put an nvidia gpu into a linux machine ?

[@kenjikurizon]

This laptop support S3 sleep mode?

[@udaysinh]

I wanted to get a tuxedo laptop in India but the price almost doubles at the import customs in India 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bardmoss]

So what's the difference between Tuxedo OS and Feren OS?

[@st0rmrider]

I guess we will

[@melaniekuppers6967]

I'm currently using Manjaro, but maybe Tuxedo OS is worth a try...

[@Damisj]

I'm currently looking for a "Linux friendly" 13'-14' laptop. But non of them so far is offering AMD ryzen 6k/7k-series with out a discrete gpu. For me performance per watt, and there by battery life is a must, and when I need ,rdna 680/780m is awesome. So intel just doesn't cut it. I'm currently using a Lenovo (Ryzen 5600u, getting on the slow side for my work..), it's awesome until you need to update the bios (Windows only -.- )

[@MaryamMaqdisi]

Out of curiosity, what kind of work do you do?

[@HellDuke-]

Seems cool. Though to be fair wether something is bloat has nothing to do with wether or not it's removable. All the bloatware that comes with Windows laptops is alo removable

[@jozsefk9]

I think that nothing can beat Endeavour OS :)

[@cameronbosch1213]

How do you get support from Tuxedo Computers on their laptops if you live outside of the EU? Do you have to ship the entire laptop at your own cost?

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Returns and cancellations are free (they pay for the shipping), so I’d say it’s the same for support, but not sure! You can ask them though, they’re on Mastodon if you use that!

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@TheLinuxEXPHmmm... I might wait for the Framework Laptop 16, but I'm running out of time to wait...

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@TheLinuxEXPShipping to my country is over $100 though, which is a bit unnerving.

[@hotrodjones74]

My Tuxedo laptop fan has worn out. I have the Aura 15 Gen 1. I live in Russia so I can't mail anything to Germany now. However, I contacted Tuxedo support about my issue asking for the part number for a new fan and they gave me all the necessary information to get the right part and fix it myself. They're really helpful and friendly. I can't recommend this company enough. Other than my fan wearing out everything else has been stellar. Note that I've had this laptop since March 2021 and I took it to campus a lot for my master's degree. Something might have happened with it in my bag all the time.

[@NeXTLoop]

I live in the US and had a Tuxedo Pulse that had a faulty trackpad. They paid for shipping back and forth, fixed it, and had it back to me in about a week and a half. It was no more trouble than dealing with any other manufacturer and the machine has been rock solid since.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Hey Nick, which laptop should i get: The Framework Laptop 16 or Tuxedo Stellaris 16?

[@TheLinuxEXP]

I never used the framework 16, it’s not out yet, is it?

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@TheLinuxEXPIt's not, but the Tuxedo laptop would have to be imported in my country, and I'm worried that support would be subpar if something breaks on the system, as I'm worried I would have to send it in all the way to Germany for repair. It looks good other than that (and the only ISO keyboard with no ANSI option), but I'm worried about that.

[@greenphlem]

​@@cameronbosch1213get what has support in your country

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@greenphlemThere's no option then. I can't find any other Linux laptop with a 2560x1600 screen and an RTX 4090... I guess I'll just suck it up and go for Tuxedo...

[@Winnetou17]

I'm not sure if the Framework 16 will have a 4090 option right out of the box. So if you need that, I'd say to go now for the Tuxedo one. You can voice your concerns directly to them, by email (as I tried) or by other means - Nick suggested Mastodon. Maybe they do have some contracts with some service repair in each country, I would expect that to make more sense. Given how wrong shipping in general can go, you might get your laptop more damage from the overseas transport than you began with.

[@creamycustardstudios2414]

Hi does tuxedo os have swipe gestures like pop os or have 1-1 gestures or no gestures at all. Also does this have gnome version?

[@TheLinuxEXP]

No gestures, no, they use X11 by default. If you move to Wayland you’ll get the normal KDE gestures. GNOME is in the repos but they don’t have an ISO with it

[@creamycustardstudios2414]

How do you add Wayland as a option also is it very easy

[@creamycustardstudios2414]

By the way I know it is hard to test a Linux distro in its entirety because there are problems that can be experienced on one computer and then it's completely fine on the others. But I think it would be good when doing a distro test to add maybe some hardware/software problems or features in this case swipe gestures. In another case it could be no gui application to change the GPU that you are using. But the point of this comment is to say I think it would be good to make a small list of the hardware that would interact with the software whether it be GPUs touch screens touchpads stuff like that and I know that you don't have a touch screen laptop. but you get my point anyways have a great day

[@LordWillyGee]

I running MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit... Run Great but when 2024 comes around (?) more programs & Browsers aren't going to update, moving away from Windows 7(?). So sent this old timer is HP DV7 AMD 17.3 w fingerprint scanner, 2.0ghz x2 CPU, Dual HHD/SSD, Blu-ray/DVD-RW (News one "Not built-in" you have to carry extra DVD/RW devices) so I going to set one HHD of dual boot Tuxedo. I like the Tudedo laptop for DIY fixable or changeable components? Look at the review on the Laptop a lot of PC get lost are damaged coming to USA? So looking for a seller I mean Tux Laptop 1500-6K USD. in the USA? But now I will try it out! OS and see?

[@jacekgruchelski-harbon7419]

My brand new Lenovo Legion S7 is coming back from the service repair, Windows 11 literally cooked the laptop. I wish I knew Tuxedo 5 months ago, they have high-end video editing spec for only £500 more than Legion. In the slim chassis

[@C0LiDe]

Why don't they link the GitHub link on the website?

[@enigmaster84]

I had a few issues due to its being (semi) rolling: I still have library to update but in order to do so I should remove other stuff I want to keep. I changed my preferences to prefer packages from Ubuntu instead of Tuxedo to have a more "stable" OS, or at least a snapshot of it. I guess I'll eventually have to reinstall it from scratch and try harder to keep up to date

[@devilzavacado8430]

Is tuxedo os able to dual boot?i know pop doesn't out if the box. you have to use refind to dual boot with pop.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, as I said in the video, they use is prober to detect other operating systems.

[@FengLengshun]

I honestly just recommend separating OSes in separate physical devices and access them through your motherboard UEFI. Less chance of something being overwritten and requiring manual fixes.

[@webflyer035]

I would have actually installed it if this video dropped a month ago. (within this month my views about gnome changed & I switched to debian 12)

[@southcoastinventors6583]

My girlfriend uses it so it must be good. Great marketing, thanks for the review.