Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)
Alexander Neundorf
neundorf at kde.org
Mon Jan 27 22:34:22 GMT 2020
On Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 15:11:36 CET Philippe Cloutier wrote:
> Le 2020-01-25 à 02:47, Alexander Neundorf a écrit :
> > On Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 15:42:15 CET Niccolò Venerandi wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> I'm working on adding a kde.org/hardware webpage. You can see screenshot
> >> here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26711. What do you think? ~Niccolò
> >> Venerandi
> >
> > Regarding Tuxedo: I bought one 5 years ago or so, and it is a good
> > machine.
> > But "They provide you with self-programmed driver packages, support,
> > installation scripts and everything around our hardware, so that every
> > hardware component really works. "
> > At least back then, this was not the case, no custom drivers, the
> > fingerprint scanner on the laptop does not work.
>
> Did it work on (say) Microsoft Windows?
I don't know.
> In any case, this claim comes straight from Tuxedo's website.
>
> > And maybe "They provide custom" instead of "They provide you with self-
> > programmed" ?
>
> I was going to write the same, but refrained, because in fact this
> brings more questions than it answers:
>
> 1. Who has verified vendor claims before copying them? The one quoted
> by Alexander hasn't even been adapted to our viewpoint.
> 2. What comes on these PC-s? Vendor-specific GNU/Linux distributions?
It seemed to be a normal OpenSUSE installation (you can choose between a few
distros, that's nice).
Alex
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