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[โ€“] B0rax@feddit.org 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Edited, thanks !

[โ€“] _Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub 50 points 6 days ago (6 children)

TUXEDO is excellent. very happy with mine. they're also on Mastodon

[โ€“] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How long have you had it? No issues?

over a year. no issues. i'm running EndeavourOS.

[โ€“] jeffep@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Distribution support outside of the standard Ubuntu/tuxedo os was terrible for a long time. The fan support was essentially broken on my laptop except on the officially supported systems. Your can manually compile the (bloaty node.js) tuxedo control center, but instructions on GitHub are wrong and incomplete.

I recently saw that they now added support for Debian 13 though, so that might be worth another try.

There is also a community project tuxedo-rs but with limited device support. Doesn't support fan control on my device but is much nicer than the original otherwise.

[โ€“] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have one running Arch. Works well, AUR has the tuxedo control centre and Tuxedo provides a short guide for Arch.

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[โ€“] atthecoast@feddit.nl 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

American CPU, made in Taiwan, assembled in China, and somehow European tech?

Let me know when itโ€™s a RISC-V laptop made at STMicroelectronics with memory made at GlobalFoundries in Dresden!

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The post clearly says European brands.
There is no European-made x86 CPU available.

[โ€“] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It will take at least 10 years to establish a manufacturer in Europe. What are you supposed to do if you need a computer now?

(mind, you should always buy secend-hand)

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[โ€“] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago

Sadly GloFo has its headquarters in New York (state) and is owned by a UAE investor. So would you really call that European then?

Besides that it doesn't seem to produce or be capable of producing DDR5 and focuses on logic instead.

Nothing is perfect.

[โ€“] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely thought that this was a meme about stereotypes around how different countries name products for a second.

[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@szmer.info 2 points 4 days ago

I dont get it tbh

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Well, "european". But have to start somewhere.

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[โ€“] Beacon@fedia.io 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are these available in the US?

[โ€“] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Tuxedo and starlabs both ship to US. First time hearing of slimbook for me.

[โ€“] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I always like to throw in MNT. Haven't had any experience with it though.

[โ€“] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

How are they in terms of reparability?

I really like the ethos of framework.... alas, they are from the US. But if you are going to buy any US tech, you can't do better than them.

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[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Very good list of recommendments, also my choices!

(To be fair, there are more good ones in that thread, but I'm not complaining).

edit: also, there's Novacustom which is Dutch and lets you customise a lot of shit.

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[โ€“] Decq@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How is the experience importing from the UK these days? I have avoided the UK at all costs since brexit. As I didn't feel like possibly having to deal with customs and delays, etc. Is it better now, including automatic taxes? Or best to still avoid it if there is a reasonable alternative?

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Man, I really miss when we had home computers to rival the Americans, like the ZX81.

[โ€“] gtr@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Which of them laptops have a track point and three mouse buttons so it can be actually used on the LAP?

[โ€“] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd love that, but I'd also happily accept two mouse buttons and a normal touchpad over one giant buttonless panel.

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I also like:

https://novacustom.com/

https://minifree.org/

Both suppliy computers with Coreboot firmware.

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anyone knows how's StarBook's support and general quality? The Horizon looks pretty damn good, but is pricy, compared to Tuxedo's Aura 14, and Tuxedo has a super cool support app built-in to their Linux distro.

[โ€“] hushable@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Linux support? amazing, been running Debian on it no problems, everything working out of the box. Customer support? no idea, I had no need to contact them

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You have a StarBook? Would you mind saying which one? I was all but decided on a Tuxedo, but then I saw how (seemingly) sexy the Horizon looks, and now I'm a bit on the fence... :D

[โ€“] hushable@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sorry, I misread, I have StarLabs Lite, not the Horizon. But I am seriously considering upgrading to it

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oooh, that's even more interesting! OK, tell me more, please! :D

How's battery life? They say it's "up to 12 hours", but I'm assuming that's "lowest brightness, no BT, no WiFi", staring at a black wallpaper"?

Which OS did you go with? Debian? And were there any issues with drivers for the touch-screen?

Do you have it with the keyboard/cover? Does it automatically go to sleep when you close it? Same with the power button press - does it go to sleep and then recover without issues?

[โ€“] hushable@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Battery life is good, not 12 hours, but I would say closer to 8 to 10 depending on usage. Charge time is a bit long since the battery has a lot of capacity.

Everything worked on Debian out of the box, I'm, using GNOME and did not have to configure nor setup anything extra. Sleep works fine and I have setup the power button to that behaviour. Sometimes when the battery is too low (say about 10%), then it won't wake up from sleep even tho that ought to be enough juice to keep the computer running for about an hour still, that might be a BIOS setting I haven't bothered to look into.

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you, that's super helpful! :)

[โ€“] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

And are there models actually for sale or is it all RFQ/vaporware?

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