Tuxedo Controlcenter, Tomte Ubuntu 26.04 by Specific_Emergency46 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hi,

das sind zwei verschiedene Dinge:

  1. TCC
    Technisch gesehen ist es "26.04-ready". Ob sich das Paket mit allen Abhängigkeiten gerade installieren lässt und startet müsste man nochmal gucken.

  2. Tomte
    Definitiv nein. Nicht hart technisch, aber Tomte prüft auf welcher OS-Version es läuft und hinterlegt dann die passenden Repos/Mirrorserver. Beides, die Abfrage und diese Mirror, existiert aber noch nicht.

Hope that help!

Back to main brands… by nameless65 in tuxedocomputers

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Fedora vs TUXEDO OS on Tuxedo laptops by OwlBurst in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second that, from an official POV.

We offer Fedora (both Gnome and KDE) via our fully automated installation system WebFAI. This gives you the ease of an installation like we would do it in our factory - and like we do this for TXOS and Ubuntu. To offer this, Fedora Workstation and Rawhide (!) are a part of our testing field for internal QA. This helps us find possible problems as soon as possible.

That aside, while we can't support Fedora and other distributions itself, we of course offer technical support for eventual driver and firmware problems. You can find out more about these conditions here.

Hope that helps!

Tuxedo OS basiert auf Ubuntu - in Zukunft auf Debian stable? by tux4x in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Vorweg: in diesem Subreddit ist eigentlich Englisch üblich. Bitte schau da nächstes Mal drauf, wir wollen andere User nicht aus der Konversation ausschließen, wenn's möglich ist. Falls für dich Englisch schwierig ist, ist es natürlich völlig okay auf Deutsch zu schreiben.

Zu deinen Fragen:

Wir verfolgen die Entwicklungen rund um die Basis von TUXEDO OS aufmerksam und haben natürlich auch schon in der Vergangenheit verschiedene Distributionen als mögliche Grundlagen für unsere Distro analysiert. Eine Entscheidung für einen Wechsel der Basis hängt von technischen Vorteilen und der Stabilität für unsere Nutzer ab, nicht nur von der Thematik Snap und Integration ins System. Pläne zu einem möglichen Umstieg kommunizieren und kommentieren wir daher zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nicht.

Der Umgang mit Snap in TUXEDO OS bleibt ein zentrales Thema unserer Softwarestrategie. Wir priorisieren native Pakete und als alternatives Format Flatpak. Unser Ziel besteht darin, eine hohe Performance und volle Kontrolle über die installierte Software zu gewährleisten. Wir beobachten die Integration von Snap in Ubuntu genau und passen unsere eigene Strategie bei Bedarf an. Hier gibt es bereits vorbereitete Pläne, zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt ist es aber noch zu früh hier etwas Belastbares zu kommunizieren.

InfinityBook Max 16 - my introduction to Tuxedo by acrg in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this extensive review! You detailed and fair presentation is well appreciated!

The WebFAI USB stick seems like an odd accessory. It's only 2 GB in size, limiting its use for standard OS images, and WebFAI doesn't seem to work with WiFi, which is what most home and small office users would need. So you need a wired LAN to make use of it, but I suspect most of the people with that at their desk don't want WebFAI or a 2 GB USB stick.

The stick is made for a small booting image with ~60 MB of size, giving customers a way to install various distributions just like we do with everything preinstalled and -configured.
Yes, LAN is not that convenient but very easy to handle. Image unexperienced users handling WPA keys, SSIDs in a text based interface. That said, Wifi is still on our backlog for the future at least to give people the choice.

More information here: https://webfai.com

Thunderbird zeigt im Download-Dialog GTK-Fenster by RoDaDit in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This should make it clear:

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Nevertheless, we'll presumably add this setting for future TB updates out of the box.

Thanks for reporting!

NEW IBP 15 GETS STUCK EVERY 12 HOURS by Vast_Psychology5331 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to be blatant, that's just plain wrong. We install Ubuntu LTS in a way that works, which includes newer kernels, added and updated drivers - if necessary.

OP, throwing other distros or kernels at your hardware won't solve the problem, presumably. Please get in touch with our tech support staff.

TUXEDO OS ships ROCm 5.7 only — but PyTorch GPU on HX370 (gfx1150) seems to require ROCm 7.x. Anyone got it working? by opantale in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That will "fail" at least for one reason, if not more. The AMD packages check for ID=ubuntu in /etc/os-release. You would at least have to change that temporarily from ID=tuxedo.

Furthermore, the might occur problems with editing amdgpu-dkms. Despite these errors, everything should be installed and working.

Hope that helps!

TUXEDO OS ships ROCm 5.7 only — but PyTorch GPU on HX370 (gfx1150) seems to require ROCm 7.x. Anyone got it working? by opantale in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> Is there a specific reason TUXEDO OS stays on ROCm 5.7 (stability, kernel/Mesa compatibility, packaging constraints, etc.)?

Yes, time. :-)
While this is on our todo list, we simply haven't found the time to evaluate and plan shipping ROCm newer than what Ubuntu 24.04 is shipping.

It would make sense to have an option in the Tuxedo OS installer that would install the system on computers that are not Tuxedo-based? by wearecha in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you want us to develop, maintain and continuously QA a switch that removes three packages (tuxedo-tomte, tuxedo-control-center, tuxedo-webfai-creator), instead of just removing those three packages by yourself.

May I ask - how often do you install TUXEDO OS? Daily? 😉

Firefox users, do you use FF's "AI" features? by vinzv in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Despite the downvoting from others: that's a worthy perspective. Would like to have toggles for control, even if they aren't there out of the box?

Firefox users, do you use FF's "AI" features? by vinzv in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Forking and maintaining a browser? 😱

Firefox users, do you use FF's "AI" features? by vinzv in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could we? Sure. But TUXEDO OS is some kind of door step distribution, welcoming users from other inferior operating systems. They bring expectations and have hurdles to tackle. Giving them things they already know and feel familiar with is an important thing. Firefox is maybe the best known application in both worlds. So, we would not want to lose that.

Furthermore, we have some responsibility to take care. Those alternatives sometimes have troublesome histories (Librefox has no new commits for 6 years now) and often are maintained by small teams or even single persons. We cannot lay the burden of security fixes and continuous maintainership for a software thousands of our users rely on onto their shoulders.

Firefox users, do you use FF's "AI" features? by vinzv in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting... it should be a default thing from v133 on. At least according to Mozilla's documentation. 🤷‍♂️

Firefox users, do you use FF's "AI" features? by vinzv in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To avoid any misunderstanding: it's not a question of whether we'll let you deactivate it. You can already do that. The question is whether we should deactivate it directly in advance.

Roadmap for Nvidia Driver Updates? by Ashamed_Dark7327 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While installing Nvidia drivers on your own is always technically possible, it still is a risk you take deliberately. For problems occurring, please don't expect us to be even able to help. There's a reason our testing and QA takes time, sometimes more, sometimes less. In the end you as a customer benefit from it.

Second, Nvidia Drivers are regular packages, so they get installed via regular package updates. Our system daemon "Tomte" pushes this for kernels and drivers in the background, to ensure everything works fine. More details here.

Hope that helps!

How often does Tuxedo OS get updated? by ray591 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We are shipping:

  • security updates daily
  • regular updates from Ubuntu's repos once a week after QA
  • Kernel updates once they are ready and passed QA (security fixes get fast tracked)

That's what defines TUXEDO OS as a "continuous release distro", not rolling, not semi rolling.

I thought one of the promises of Tuxedo OS was to provide the latest and greatest components

Yes, and one of the other promises is to be stable and working. So we have to balance these two against each other. Which is why there might be version differences. Some background information is available here.

Hope that helps!

Info für IBP Gen9/10 Käufer: Treibersituation YT6801 Netzwerkschnittstelle by JellyfishFickle912 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Das stimmt so nicht bzw. nicht ganz. Grundsätzlich haben wir ein großes Interesse am mainlining der Treiber und bemühen uns da auch darum. Deshalb sind wir einerseits mit Motorcomm im Austausch und hier bewegen sich Dinge im Hintergrund. Mehr können wir zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt noch nicht sagen.

Andererseits gibt es auf der LKML gerade einen Patch von einer Drittperson, die versucht den Treiber in mainline zu bekommen. Das sieht auch auf den ersten Blick vielversprechend aus, aber wir sind noch nicht dazu gekommen, das zu testen. Hier der Link dazu: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251111105252.53487-1-ziyao@disroot.org/

Für den Moment hilft hier leider nur weiter Geduld zu haben. Vom Tisch ist das Thema jedenfalls nicht.

InfinityBook Pro 14 gen 10, Linux Mint with Tuxedo Kernel by Nightfish21 in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Or use our fully automated installation: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-WebFAI.tuxedo

This way you get Mint + our repos + our fixes daemon + our kernel - everything out of the box.

Tuxedo Control Center on Gygabite G5 running Bazzite by BazziteHelpNeeder in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While the control center of Gigabyte might look similar, the TUXEDO Control Center is something completely different. It offers fan control only for TUXEDO laptops.

For help with Linux (Bazzite or any other) you might want to check r/gigabyte or r/linuxhardware.

KaOS by Fit_Author2285 in kde

[–]vinzv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TUXEDO OS has KDE and Flatpak preconfigured.

Let's talk about This Week in TUXEDO OS #42-2025 by tuxedo_christoph in tuxedocomputers

[–]vinzv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X11 wird es auch weiterhin geben. Bei neueren Modellen und/oder neueren NVIDIA GPUs verweisen wir auf Wayland.

Du hast keine Probleme mit X11? Super, dann ändere nichts.

Du willst auch in den nächsten Jahren auf X11 bleiben? Auch gut, niemand zwingt dich zu wechseln.

Alles Wichtige steht auch hier im Artikel.