Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

[Philippe Cloutier]

Le 2020-01-27 à 17:34, Alexander Neundorf a écrit :
> 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 that case, maybe your scanner was broken.


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>> In any case, this claim comes straight from Tuxedo's website.
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>>> 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:
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>>   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).


Thank you Alexander


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