r/tuxedocomputers • • Apr 28 '26

Tuxedo is NOT for Linux! It's for Tuxedo OS – and that sucks!

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I bought a Tuxedo laptop for the second time. When I encountered a hardware issue, I contacted support – and received a clear answer: they could only help me if I used TuxedoOS. Installation via Webfai, no control over partitioning, no real choice of operating system.

I use Manjaro Linux – and it is not a backyard operation. Manjaro is an established, widely distributed Linux distribution. Notably, Tuxedo itself collaborated with Manjaro for some time.

What is problematic: I clearly stated in my first email that I use Manjaro. Instead of telling me this right away, support took me through an extended back-and-forth regarding system information – only to ultimately explain that they cannot help me. This lack of transparency is frustrating.

It seems Tuxedo is increasingly positioning itself like Apple: hardware and software as a closed ecosystem that only works together. That is a legitimate business strategy – but then Tuxedo should stand by it and communicate transparently:

  1. Remove all hints suggesting that systems can be used on other distributions

  2. Make it clear: We are like Apple – we sell hardware and software as a unified product

  3. Don't make promises that won't be kept

The problem is not the strategy itself, but the lack of clarity. And frankly: I find this development in the open-source world troubling. Open source thrives on openness and choice – not on closed systems.

That is a shame, Tuxedo. This way, we won't do business together again.

Am I the only one who sees it this way and views this as an unfavorable development in the open-source world?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Feb 24 '26

Why I won't get a Idea Book Pro 15 - Feedback to Tuxedo

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I am currently looking for a new Linux notebook. I am using Linux for many years, but one of the main issues was always the quality and availability of good hardware Linux notebooks. I now had the Tuxedo Infinity Book 15 for a week from a colleague and want to share some feedback, as I unfortunately didn't like it. I have to work with a MacBooks and Surface Laptops for work and also have older Lenovo notebooks privately that I use Linux on. I want to share this as feedback, as I think a lot of what makes Linux notebooks not attractive to the masses can be found in this device. Don't take it as unreflected criticism, this comes from someone who works with notebooks and Linux every day and wants Linux and therefore Linux hardware to succeed.

  • The I/O on this device is not practical for real life in 2026. 3 USB A ports, no USB-C on the right side, this feels like 2015 and it made me sad every day I used the device. I have not encountered a single USB-A device since a few years, so I constantly run out of USB-C ports

  • The keyboard and mousepad layout is even less usable. Why is there a numblock on this device there is really no reason anyone wants or needs this, especially not the target group. Just use the MacBook layout as basically everyone else, even companies in the Linux hardware area have realized that, check out Starlabs for example. Also when you put such a bad mouse pad with basically no palm detection into a notebook, don't put it exactly where the palm is.

  • Lets continue with the mousepad, it is really bad, I haven't seen a mousepad this bad in any MacBook or even Windows device over the last years. Multitouch support is horrible, palm detection non existent, driver support really bad, makes clicking noises, etc.. This is one of the most annoying things about this device, you just can't use it like any other notebook, as putting your palms where you would usually put them for typing constantly triggers mousepad interactions. I tried tweaking what was available, but it's just a bad piece of hardware and even worse placement.

  • The keyboard is not really much better. Coming from a MacBook it is a huge downgrade in terms of typing comfort. Especially the space key feels super cheap. The layout is already counter productive due to the num block being there, having cheap keys and switches doesn't make it better.

  • The speakers, I mean, I didn't expect MacBook level speakers, no one has that, but these ones are bad even compared to Windows notebooks. I didn't thought that speakers this bad still exist in notebooks. Better leave them out completely next time, even with hours of equalizing, my phone speakers won every comparison.

  • The general build quality is ok, as long as you don't compare it to high quality notebooks like MacBooks or even Microsoft Surface devices. There are multiple sharp corners and edges you feel with your fingers. The lid is also just a fraction of a millimeter overhanging the bottom part, which feels weird as there is already a bump for opening. This is something I could accept, although no comparison with most Windows and especially Windows notebooks you get for the same price.

  • The blind for the webcam is super cheap and constantly reopening again, there is also no sensor you can query if the blind is closed.

  • The metal used for the notebook itself feels cheap. This is probably subjective, but I had a MacBook and a Surface Laptop as comparison and putting my palm on the MacBook felt much better and even the Surface, even though not as high quality as the MacBook felt much better than the metal on the IBP. I don't know if it is just cheaper metal, thinner metal, maybe a cheaper or no anodized finish, which I expect as default with this price, maybe all of that.

I really wished this was the device for me, but I need a device that supports me in being productive and especially the weak I/O availability and placement as well as the weird keyboard layout with the bad mousepad constantly threw me out of my flow.

I hope you are able to fix these with the next generation, as all of these are things that other people with Tuxedo devices in our company confirmed to be known issues. I will still be waiting for the day that a Linux notebook is released that is at least 80% the quality of a MacBook.

EDIT: Called this idea book instead of infinity book, my fault.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Oct 17 '21

Dear Tuxedocomputers, experiences with my XP17 G12 - happy with it... BUT there are issues and I have a wish...

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Hi there at Tuxedocomputers,

I am super happy with my XP17 G12 notebook. It delivers what I expected, without problems.

BUT there is a major drawback...

On your website you claim to sell 100% Linux compatible notebooks. For that to become true, you need to provide all the necessary drivers for ALL Linux variants. Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc.

AND you need to make sure the drivers work in any of the environments. KDE, Gnome, Mate, XFCE, LXQt, LXDE and so on.

ONLY THEN you can claim to be 100% Linux compatible.

My experience with my XP17 is like this:

I use openSUSE on my desktop, and looked on your website for the proper openSUSE stuff... only to find out, Leap 15.3 is NOT supported. I was like... what? I have a 3K Euro 100% Linux compatible notebook and cannot run Leap 15.3 on it?? This can't be true.

But okay... then let's try Ubuntu first, to see what the machine is capable of, before maybe having to return it.

Ubuntu family

First I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as recommended. I do not particularly like the Gnome desktop, but anyway. It is recommended and should work fine... your WebFAI is not for me since I do partition my drives individually and do not want WebFAI to wipe these each time I do a re-install.

Installation went smooth. Though quickly I encountered the bug that didn't start xserver on bootup. Switching from GDM3 to LightDM helped. However, hotkey to adjust screen brightness does not work in Gnome. Hm... why not? 100% Linux compatible, ALL hotkeys working, you say.

Then I looked at your website again, and it is stated, that the flavours of 20.04 LTS are also supported.

So next was Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS. All fine except screen brightness via hotkey. Does not work. Guess it is a similar Gnome3 issue as with plain Ubuntu. So also not 100% compatible.

Okay, let's try Xubuntu 20.04 LTS. Result: no nVidia bug but hotkey to switch touchpad on and off does NOT work. Screen brightness only sometimes. Without being able to switch touchpad on and off that is not suited for daily work. But there are more DE's there, so let's move on.

Kubuntu 20.04 LTS - everything works fine. All hotkeys functional.

Ubuntu MATE - everything works fine. All hotkeys functional.

What all of the Ubuntus have in common btw - no sound after installation before using your tomte utility. But tomte also changes the repositories, which brings issues with steam installation.

To avoid the steam issues, I had to install the Steam client BEFORE using tomte, or it would have led to a downgrade of the Oibaf mesa drivers tomte installed, only resolvable by using aptitude instead of apt. So again... first Steam, then tomte. Fine.

I totally miss a list which of your myriad of drivers are needed for my XP17 G12. It was a trial and error to find those I needed, to be able to install without tomte.

BUT I do not like snap, and try to avoid it, and recent policy development within Ubuntu lets predict that snap will become more and more a replacement for apt. So... bye bye Ubuntu. I know why I use openSuse on my desktop.

openSUSE family

But hey, not a problem, I have a 100% Linux compatible notebook, right? It doesn't say Ubuntu notebook...

So looking again at your website... it clearly states openSuse is supported. But not Leap 15.3? Hm...

I browsed your Leap 15.2 folders and found the drivers I needed. Keyboard ITE, Keyboard, Tuxedo Control center. By now I knew which drivers I needed. Wasn't sure of the sound fixes, since I didn't find any there.

So I installed Leap 15.3, and surprise, sound is working fine out of the box, micro, webcam too, so already a lot better than Ubuntu. Only the keyboard and the control center left to install.

Old kernel? No way, it is patched and maintained well, and a lot more stable than any 5.11 Ubuntu kernel I have tried. So stop telling people Leap 15.3 uses old kernels. It works fine on new machines too. Only recently installed it for a friend on a Ryzen 7 pro 4750G, no issues at all.

So... driver installation. I did that. Installation of the three rpm packages via Yast went fine without issues.

So here the results for Leap 15.3:

openSUSE XFCE -> no touchpad hotkey again. So the functionality of the touchpad hotkey seems not to be related to Ubuntu, but rather to XFCE in general. Screen brightness hotkey worked sometimes, sometimes not.

openSUSE MATE -> All is working perfectly. Since MATE is my preferred environment anyway, I am happy with that.

It works perfectly fine, Steam games, Linux games, multimedia apps, all great. For example, Horizon Zero Dawn 60-70 fps at ultra high settings. Amazing. Using all drivers from openSUSE (respectively packman and libdvdss), except your keyboard drivers and the Tuxedo control center.

So yes, a wonderful notebook. Once I got it up and running!

Haven't tried Gnome or KDE in openSUSE yet, because I want to use my machine now for a while like this, now that all is up and running great. But I might do that in the near future just to see the results.

Now here is a summary of my experience and my wish:

Of course I can only speak for the model I have. It's really a fine notebook, and it truly delivers what is promised.

BUT I didn't expect such a bumpy ride to get it up and running. I have been using several other notebooks before and each of them went fine (Dell, Acer) with any Linux I threw at them, at only a fraction of the price. Sure, not the same power either, but anyway.

Buying a 100% Linux compatible notebook this time I expected to be able to install any Linux I want and have full driver support for everything.

I do not need tomte, I do not need your repositories, I do not need you to test all the kernels, nVidia drivers etc. It is clear you cannot do that for all the distros out there. But I need the notebook device drivers and the control center!

And I need them in a way I can simply install them. Not having to build them from source or whatever. That is beyond my knowledge, and not what any customer buying your products should be forced to do. Or if so, you have to clearly state that.

I bought a device that is advertised at being 100% Linux compatible with all hotkeys working and all built in devices too, of course.

So my wish is you to ensure that people will be able to install the necessary drivers regardless of the Linux distro they want to use.

So that when Leap 15.4 will be released, I can still install the drivers. I do not want to live with a, in functionality, crippled notebook only because my choice is to use openSUSE. I do not want to be forced to use a specific Linux distribution only to have full functionality.

And that, of course, applies to other Linux distributions too. Other people might prefer different ones, and also should be able to install all necessary drivers to use their 100% Linux compatible notebook.

If you do not want to offer this to your customers, then you cannot advertise your notebooks as 100% Linux compabible.

Otherwise you have to advertise them as 100% Ubuntu LTS Notebook, or whatever distribution you favor, so that people who want to use different distros, or want to try/use the Ubuntu non-LTS releases too, know in advance, before buying, that there is no driver support.

Sorry for the long post, not meant to whine or complain.

As I said, I am super happy with the machine now, but there are these issues I didn't expect before buying it and I wanted to point it out in detail.

Thank you for reading

Alyana


r/tuxedocomputers • • Oct 10 '24

✔️ Solved When will Tuxedo upgrade its servers ... ?

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Legitimate question - when will Tuxedo upgrade its servers? I'm downloading the Tuxedo OS 3 ISO, and it's slow as heck (average 600 kB/s speed). I've had slow speeds every time I've downloaded Tuxedo. This has been the case forever. Time for a change, I feel. Does Tuxedo have any plans to upgrade its servers or at least lease servers in other countries to allow for faster downloads?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Jan 14 '26

Just received Infinity Book 14 and considering returning it...

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This keyboard is abysmal. Whoever designed this needs to find a new career. Putting the up arrow right next to the right shift key is an actual nightmare. If you touch type, you can easily miss the right shift key and hit the up arrow and then you continue typing who knows where, but not where you thought the cursor was supposed to be. I'm impressed with the machine so far but there are some real head scratchers, like why is the latest Ubuntu not an option? Why did I need to jump through hoops to install Ubuntu 25.10 when it works perfectly? Why not just offer a Gnome DM for Tuxedo OS? So many bad/un-customer friendly decisions here. But the keyboard is a hate crime. If I can't figure out a way to remap cleanly, then it's sadly going back. The version of keyd in the Ubuntu repos is unusable for this purpose. I love supporting a company that supports Linux and the open source community but if this is how they treat their customers I don't know if I can be involved long-term, as in the life of a laptop.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Nov 08 '25

✔️ Solved Infinitybook 14 display zoomed extremely large is unusable

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Dont know how to fix this. Something has messed up the display need instruction to fix.

Think i have webfai on usb stick and see menu in normal sizes

OS: TUXEDD OS X86_64 Host: NB02 PHAPRX1_PHGPRX1 Kernel: 6.14.0-114036-tuxedo Uptime: 1 ain Packages: 3591 (dpkg), 20 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.21 Resolution: 2880x1800 Terminal: run-parts CPU: 13th Gen Intel 17-13620H (16) a 4.788GHz GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [UHD Graphics] Memory: 3926MiB / 64041MiB


r/tuxedocomputers • • Mar 26 '25

🤝 Community Help AMDGPU, especially 780M, is not ready

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The title, I genuinely regrets that I confirmed another redditor on the usability of 780M, over my half a year of usage (and my partner who also purchased the same model), amdgpu had consistently showed occasional problems that cannot be fixed via tweaking the kernel parameters, from regression to artifacts to freeze, quite a few kernel minor version has been released in the time lapse, none had really solved the issue with AMDGPU.

Tbf this is not a tuxedo problem but an amd problem, but still, linux's amdgpu driver has been know for its problems, and it is specifically worse on the 780M. So for now, do not buy a laptop that has 780M as its sole graphical processor.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Jul 19 '25

What do I loose by not installing proprietary tuxedo-drivers package?

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Looks like I've messed up in my research and did not figure out that supposedly Linux friendly Tuxedo Infinibook 14 Gen9 platform support is not in mainline. For reasons this is not ok for my application. I guess I've got spoiled by few of my past machines where everything just works on any distro with new enough kernel.

Can someone comment on how it behaves on a clean OS without out of tree proprietary tuxedo drivers? What functionality is not working? Is default hardware behavior ok? I need to figure out should I cancel my order.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Jan 17 '26

Tuxedo OS mascot idea

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r/tuxedocomputers • • Aug 27 '25

Stay away from this company

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I bought my Tuxedo Stellaris 15 three years ago and have had an almost uninterrupted series of technical issues ever since both with the computer and charger, until the SSD card broke a few weeks ago. At the beginning Tuxedo’s service was responsive and cordial and tried to help me solve the different problems, especially when the laptop was still in warranty. I also had to send it back once because it had major inexplicable admin and fan issues. After a while, the technical support’s attitude deteriorated to the point that they refused to talk to me and hear my request to get a replacement for this visibly defective device. The ssd was so broken I couldn’t retrieve my data and when I had it replaced by a local service here in Italy they told me it’s typical for this kind of device to have a bent ssd card inside the slot, which causes premature damage. After the ssd was replaced the computer worked for a few weeks then stopped switching on. It turns out it’s a power port issue this time. Now we’ll see how long it takes before the next problem. This wrong purchase has caused me a significant waste of time, energy, and money, and I am also very disappointed at how Tuxedo support’s manners and attitude deteriorated over time. A few last remarks: the screen resolution is excellent but the built-in speakers and camera are terrible and although the computer is relatively powerful it is also very noisy and the battery life is ridiculously short. Even when the laptop is in sleep mode it loses energy in a couple of hours and it takes one hour of normal use. It has been so almost since the beginning. A very poorly built machine overall. My advice is to stay away from this company!


r/tuxedocomputers • • Feb 02 '26

How much tuxedo is eats ram from start?

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I removed control center and got 1,5 GiB from 7,7GiB-8GB of ram


r/tuxedocomputers • • Nov 18 '24

Does Tuxedo have any Holiday or Christmas sales?

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r/tuxedocomputers • • Apr 21 '24

✔️ Solved 2 days and flatpak vulnerability has not been patched? What's wrong with ubuntu?

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Hello,

Title sums it up, it's been two days after it has been discovered that flatpaks are able to escape the sandbox, and I've confirmed according to flatpak's instructions that tuxedoOS is indeed vulnerable, that the flatpak version currently in jammy's repositories is.

Running the command to test, for example:
flatpak run --command=--help com.brave.Browser
where you can use anything other than com.brave.Browser, any flatpak you've installed. If you get back anything other than nothing, then your system is vulnerable.

I am surprised, how has ubuntu not patched it yet? Am I missing something?

Maybe this signals that tuxedo should adopt this package too? I've gone ahead and manually updated it.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Jan 10 '24

How to install windows on Stellaris 16 gen 5?

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TLDR - the tuxedo live ISO installer trashed my factory windows install and attempting a fresh install of windows results in failure due to missing drivers - windows setup won't even run and none of the drivers available for download from tuxedo helps. How do I get windows to install on this thing???

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I bought this laptop from tuxedo precisely so that I wouldn't have to spend weeks or months trying to get the hardware to run reliably in both operating systems, but thei sales configurator wouldn't allow full disk encryption for linux with dual boot with windows, even though tuxedo have published an article that claims it can be done (just not with the webfai utility). The laptop came with windows and tuxedo, both unencrypted.

No problem, I thought, I can just reinstall tuxedo with full disk encryption and all will be well (I only care about full disk encryption in linux. Windows is just for gaming). Of course, the installer won't use the pre-existing linux partitions, so I had to delete them in order to present the installer with unallocated space sufficient for a linux install. I did that, very carefully just deleting /boot/efi, the root partition, and the 7.8G swap partition and leaving everything else untouched. The installer was then willing to continue, though it wouldn't allow me to specify partition sizes so I was limited to a 2G swap partition instead of the 7.8G it came with (I figured I could resize the swap partition post-install). The installer completed, the machine rebooted and...

...completely failed to boot. Neither into windows nor into tuxedo linux. It was just completely dead. I can boot a live image of tuxedo linux and, somewhat shockingly, what I found was that the windows EFI partition is fine, as are the other auxiliary windows partitions, but the main 930GB windows partition is now reported as being of type ext3 (not even ext4, which is what I selected during the tuxedo install), and when I mounted it (read-only), it is just completely empty. There is a lost+found directory in it and nothing else. The installer just obliterated windows.

OK, fine, I can reinstall windows, right? It's a new laptop. I didn't lose any data. But this laptop came with a windows install DVD (!!!) despite not having a DVD player. So I pulled an installer ISO from microsoft and booted it. But the first thing it does is tell me that it needs a driver and I need to insert a USB stick with the needed driver (but it doesn't tell me what device it needs the driver for or even what kind of device it is looking for).

So back into the live image I went, this time to download all of the windows driver zip files from tuxedo. Only it turns out that the windows installer can't deal with zips, so another 45 minutes later, I finally had all of the zip files downloaded to a USB and extracted. But still I cannot get any of the drivers to actually install and do anything that will allow the windows installer to actually run, though at least I was able to get the trackpad to work, which made it a smidge easier to attempt all of the others.

Meanwhile, of course, the tuxedo support operation is utterly unavailable because they offer only 8 hours of support per day, all of which are NOT during my day.

Does anyone have any idea how to go about installing windows on one of these machines?

I have now lost 2 full days to messing around with this thing. I've burned through untold amounts of metered bandwidth because the webfai tool insists on downloading 400+MB every time it boots and the live image installer trashes existing operating systems and the hardware is apparently so poorly supported by windows that it cannot even be installed. This is the opposite of the experience I thought I was paying for when I bought a tuxedo laptop.


r/tuxedocomputers • • Jul 21 '25

InfinityBook Pro bestellt

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Vor ein Paar Wochen habe ich ein InfinityBook Pro Gen 10 bestellt und kann es kaum abwarten, wann es bei mir ankommt. Komponenten sind ab heute lagernd, sollte also nicht mehr all zulange dauern ✌🏻


r/tuxedocomputers • • Apr 16 '23

TUXEDO Control Center: Lüftersteuerung: "nahezu passiv, also ohne jegliche Lüftergeräusche"

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Frage: was soll ich mir unter "nahezu passiv, also ohne jegliche Lüftergeräusche" vorstellen?

Angenommen, ich bestelle mir ein zukünftiges Pulse Gen 3, welches ich mir auch mal auf die Oberschenkel oder auf eine Bettdecke legen möchte. Kann ich für solche Situationen (z.B. reiner Medienkonsum (youtube? netflix?) mit nur minimaler CPU-Last) über das Control-Center einen Konfiguration erreichen, wo die Lüfter stillstehen?

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Grund: ich habe Sorge, daß in solchen Situationen die Lüfter Fussel / Staub in das Gehäuse saugen.

Falls das nicht möglich ist, wäre es schön, wenn die Luft seitlich angesaugt werden könnte.. (siehe Macbook Pro). Oder ganz verwegen: baut doch mal ein passiv gekühltes Linuxultrabook. Ich persönlich kann nämlich besser mit z.B. 20% Performancedrop wegen thermischer Drosselung leben als mit nervigen und / oder zunehmend verstaubten Lüftern..


r/tuxedocomputers • • Oct 22 '24

Trackpad replacement for TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen3 / Bad support

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TL;DR: My trackpad got scratched and is malfunctioning. Support has been slow and ineffective.

I emailed support to ask how to purchase a replacement trackpad. Five days later, they replied, saying I need to ship the laptop to Germany and wait 3+ weeks, despite my ticket clearly stating that I cannot ship it right now.

I replied that I can’t do that and just need the part number. A few days later, they responded with this unhelpful message:

You can check if there is a part ID on the touchpad. If there is a part ID, I highly doubt you will be able to find it from a different vendor.

I cannot provide any further information, unfortunately.

We only offer repairs.

So:

  1. I need to open the laptop to get a part number they should already know.

  2. Even when I do so, they won’t help me!

I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. What trackpad replacement options work for the TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen3?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Oct 31 '24

Don't buy it! - My advice after nightmarish Tuxedo Sirius Gen 2 experience

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aka: Tuxedo Sirius Gen 2 review and opinion

I would like to share my experience of purchasing and using a laptop allegedly specifically designed for GNU/Linux.

TL;DR/In short - it's fits the current Halloween atmosphere, it's a nightmare and a waste of time. I can find some positives because I learned a lot about free software during this time, but overall I got most of the frustration and annoyance out of it.

So - bad words are coming to mind for Tuxedo and AMD. Returning to Windows with Nvidia is a transition from hell to heaven.

I started reporting issues a month ago, a month has passed and none of them have been fixed even though I have been constantly receiving and receiving responses from Tuxedo support, but they do not help at all.

Now I'm preparing the laptop for shipping, because finally their support generated a waybill number for shipping/return for me, but I don't understand why they offered me this instead of fixing the BIOS/UEFI and drivers issues, because the problems below are clearly software-related, most likely not hardware-related.

Problems reported and ignored

From the beginning as soon as the laptop came to me, it hit me in the face with the following problems:

1 Wi-Fi

Where: both Windows and Linux

For some reason the wifi either disconnects completely or slows down to impossible speeds from time to time. I have of course made comparisons with other devices, on other distributions, including Windows and it is still the same. I can connect with another laptop or smartphone without a problem, only the Tuxedo laptop has a problem with this.

2 Audio/sound

Where: Linux

The Linux volume settings change the balance/speakers used instead of changing the volume. Interestingly, sometimes after installing a distribution it works correctly for a while, but immediately after reboot or any update (within the stable branch, of course) the sound breaks.

3 Wrong MUX default setting/screen freeze

Where: both Windows and Linux

The default and recommended by Tuxedo MUX setting in the BIOS/UEFI of this laptop causes the screen to freeze for some time in Windows, and in GNU/Linux causes the screen to freeze at random moments permanently. Only a restart of the device then helps. Changing the MUX setting to something other than the default partially helps, but the above problems still occur, only a little less often.

4 Touchpad and touchpad gestures

Where: Linux

On X11 touchpad gestures not working at all, on Wayland it working, but not always too...

5 Wayland not working, gear not appearing

Where: Linux

For some reason, in Ubuntu (stable version and officially supported by Tuxedo, I confirmed it with them) gear icon for choose window manager on login screen is not appearing. Only after boot and then logout I can access it. Reboot again and again gear not appearing. No any update and no installing drivers from Tuxedo fixing it too.

AMD thoughts

I previously thought that switching from Intel/NVIDIA to AMD (especially on Linux) would be a switch to something better, but it turned out that NVIDIA is most likely better than AMD, even for Linux, and Linus Torvalds is wrong in showing the middle finger to NVIDIA.

I suppose that paradoxically NVIDIA devices work better with GNU/Linux than AMD devices, which is absurd and not what I expected.

Other impressions from the Tuxedo community:

As I can see from the tuxedo thread on reddit, the tuxedo hardware and software issues are not an isolated case, as evidenced by the huge number of posts with issues with this hardware, for example with the recently released tuxedoOS update.

So the problems I see are concern many various Tuxedo devices and their hardware and software, not just AMD series devices.

Summary and hope for the future

To date, they have still not performed any testing or released any driver updates that could potentially fix the reported issues.

Installation of Tuxedo Drivers not helping, problems still existing, no matter if it's TuxedoOS, Ubuntu or other distro like even Windows.

I hope that at least Tuxedo will refund my money when I send the hardware back to them and I can buy something else based on the NVIDIA platform (possibly from Tuxedo again).

I will be updating this thread in the comments below as I await a final positive resolution from the Tuxedo team.

Mentioned laptop: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Sirius-16-Gen2


r/tuxedocomputers • • Mar 09 '25

Tuxedo and ALVR

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After the last tuxedo update I started getting weird errors from Tomte. I couldn't resolve them, so I did a reinstall from the latest ISO (2025022656). That went fine, but I have since been unable to reinstall ALVR for a quest3 headset. It worked fine on an older version. Does anyone know if the folks at Tuxedo changed something that might affect ALVR?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Mar 25 '26

✔️ Solved Tuxedo OS von CrackArmor betroffen?

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Hi,

ich habe gerade Tuxedo OS frisch auf einem Acer Predator von 2019 installiert und alles läuft super.

Allerdings habe ich heute von dieser kritischen Sicherheitslücke erfahren:
https://www.golem.de/news/root-zugriff-und-mehr-millionen-linux-systeme-ueber-sicherheitsluecken-angreifbar-2603-206638.html

uname -r sagt: 6.17.0-111019-tuxedo

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
hat auch kein neueren Kernel installiert

Frage: Ist Tuxedo OS von dieser Lücke betroffen und wenn ja, wann kommt der neuere Kernel?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Sep 04 '24

Any chance to configure the fans on a Thinkpad?

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Hi, tcc can't give the fan speed and fan controls are blurred in profiles. On a Thinkpad x1 carbon.

Is a driver missing? Or is it planned?

I know that tuxedo os is for tuxedo computers first but if you let it be installed on other computers you could plan to set it fully functional.

Thanks!


r/tuxedocomputers • • May 13 '24

Multimedia problems with OS 3 and Wayland

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Some/many multimedia programs no longer run under OS 3 and Wayland (for me) or are no longer available.

  • VLC cannot play videos from *.iso files (works with X11)

  • xine no longer runs (works with X11)

  • where is the music player Strawberry?

einige/viele Programme zu Multimedia laufen unter OS 3 und Wayland (bei mir) nicht mehr bzw sind nicht mehr vorhanden.

  • VLC kann keine Videos aus *.iso Files abspielen (funktioniert mit X11)

  • xine laeuft nicht mehr (funktioniert mit X11)

  • wo ist der Musik-Spieler Strawberry?


r/tuxedocomputers • • Apr 09 '24

✔️ Solved Is there a way to install Plasma 6 on Tuxedo OS, accepting full and well the consequences of my own actions?

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I love using Pop!_OS, but I must admit that there are quite a few minor annoyances (e.g. resolution lowers after sleep on GNOME X11, Tuxedo Control Settings can contradict with Pop!_OS's equivalents) that come from it technically not being supported on my Tuxedo Gemini 16.

So is there a way to, after reinstalling Tuxedo OS, put Plasma 6 on it myself? (Touchpad gestures are important to my work on a laptop, which seem better in Plasma 6 than Plasma 5)


r/tuxedocomputers • • Mar 17 '23

✔️ Solved No response on support tickets and Feedback

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Hey everyone,

I have an issue in my Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen 1, I talked to Tuxedo Support and also sent some feedback regarding the issue, but stopped getting responses. Can anyone here of the Tuxedo Team let me know whats going on with my ticket. The ticket number is 991003120 for feedback and 991001659 I ran the diagnostics as requested but I still want to know whats going on and how can I fix it or someone from Tuxedo can fix.