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Hello Linux community. How are you guys?

I am writing to ask if anyone has ever heard of TUXEDO Computer, since I want to buy one of their laptops.

To be specific I am interested in buying the InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD at 1350€.

Following the specs:

1. Display:

   • 15.3-inch IPS panel
   • 2560 x 1600 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio)
   • 240 Hz refresh rate
   • Matte / non-glare finish
   • ~500 nits brightness
   • ~100% sRGB color gamut

2. Processor:

   • AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
   • 8 Cores / 16 Threads
   • Max 5.1 GHz
   • 16 MB L3-Cache
   • 54 W TDP

3. Graphics:

   • AMD Radeon 780M (integrated)
   • 12 GPU Cores
   • Max clock speed: 2.7 GHz

4. Memory:

   • Up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 MHz
   • 2 SO-DIMM slots
   • Dual Channel support

5. Storage:

   • 2x M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots (PCIe 4.0 x4)

6. Battery:

   • 99 Wh Lithium polymer battery
   • Up to 10 hours battery life for office work

7. Ports:

   • 1x USB-A 2.0
   • 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen1
   • 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen2 (with DisplayPort 1.4 and Power Delivery)
   • 1x USB4 (40 Gbps, DisplayPort 1.4, Power Delivery)
   • 1x HDMI 2.1
   • 1x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
   • 1x SD card reader (SD/SDHC/SDXC)
   • 1x 3.5mm audio jack

8. Networking:

   • Wi-Fi 6E (Intel AX210)
   • Bluetooth 5.3
   • 1 Gigabit Ethernet

9. Webcam:

   • 2.0 Megapixel (1920 x 1080)
   • With privacy shutter

10. Audio:

    • 2x integrated speakers
    • Integrated microphone

11. Keyboard:

    • White backlit
    • With number pad

12. Touchpad:

    • Glass precision clickpad (121 x 73 mm)

13. Build:

    • Aluminum chassis (lid, base, and bottom)

14. Dimensions:

    • Width: 34.2 cm
    • Depth: 23.8 cm
    • Height: 2 cm

15. Weight:

    • 1.6 kg (including battery)

16. Operating System:

    • Choice of Linux distributions (including TUXEDO OS)

17. Additional Features:

    • Kensington Lock slot
    • TPM 2.0 (via fTPM)
    • 180° display opening angle

18. Power Supply:

    • 100 W USB-C Power Delivery

Do you guys think it is ok for a 1350€ laptop? Here is the link to the store page if you interested having a look.

Thank you for reading.

I'm 43 and not really starting using Linux. I've dabbled with distros on and off over the years, but I never made the full switch because work always had some program or policy that just wouldn't play nice with Linux. With all the crappy Microsoft decisions, bloatware, and ads I decided to try and use Linux exclusively on a personal device, and I'm absolutely loving it!

I've been working with Ubuntu as my main distro, and I've also been playing around with distros on a Raspberry Pi. To really challenge myself, I installed Linux on an old Surface Pro 3, and guess what? It just works! I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the setup was and how well it performs.

I missing any key steps or tips to make the experience even better on a Surface? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I was planning to buy a new tablet that runs Linux but this is working better than expected. I'm really enjoying the flexibility and control Linux offers and want to keep this momentum going.

I have read up and tried plenty, just looking for some perspectives out there specific to your tablet experiences.

I was going through my old stuff and found an Xbox 360 controller and the wireless PC receiver that was once a requirement before the bluetooth-enabled controllers. I remember using it when I was a Windows user but I'm completely stuck on how to use it under Manjaro. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2013/2013-09-27-initramfs-required/2013-09-27-initramfs-required.en.txt?id=a79dd69b0cca439bc0c483c9193c79e0554819d0

how easy is it to install arch? (no anarchy/archinstall)

I'm new to linux and have been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) for the past few days. I was using Vivaldi on Windows 11 and I loved it so I decided to also use it on Mint.

However the problem now is it "stutters" a lot. videos stutter, even typing (like right now) it just randomly stutters and pauses. Also sometimes it simply won't open a new tab. So I don't know if this is common with Vivaldi or what.

I'm open to using a different browser as long as I can port over my passwords and bookmarks from vivaldi. is there a better alternative?

Thanks.

EDIT: so it wasn't the browser, it's the nvidia drivers. the 535 driver is causing it to stutter, tried switching to nouveau drivers and while it solves the stuttering it tanks gaming. tried installing the 550 drivers and it bricked my system. recovered and just going to deal with the stuttering of the 535 for now.

Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.

This is bothering me for years now, my backup script always takes everything with it, taking forever to finish.

I initially used the --exclude option, but this is rather restrictive, cluttered the script and still had the excluded directories.
Then i discovered -X/--exclude-from but same result here, weird globbing and still fails.
So i hacked a negative list via fd's --ignore-file and tar -T/--files-from together. But tar still includes files and directories not on the fucking files.tmp.

So i'm not sure if it is a bug in Arch's GNU tar or if it's maybe a parameter in the wrong position, tar can be removed there. This is my current code

# tar -cf - -X "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/backup/ignore "$INPUT" -P

fd . -Hi --ignore-file "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/backup/ignore "${INPUT}" > "$_tmpfile"
tar -cf - --verbatim-files-from --files-from="$_tmpfile" -P \
	|pv -tapes "$_fssize" \
	|compress >"${OUTPUT}.$_ext"

INPUT is $HOME in this case.

And if anyone has a solution that works on busybox tar as well...

I wanted to try Bazzite but for some reason the download from bazzite.gg is very slow (around 1-2MB/sec) and also fails at some point, every time.

Does anyone know this issue? Is there a torrent for Bazzite that I am not aware of?

I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

back when I used xubuntu I used gmusicbrowser.

Now, debian 12.5 netinst came with quod libet installed and it can handle 60k files so far.

note that my music collection is stored in 4 different SSD.

If there is anything better than quod libet, what would it be?

Without other usb devices the keyboard works immediately. With them it takes 5 ish seconds for it to start responding. This is regardless of which device is discovered first (which I can manipulate), it seems to just wait for all of them. Is there a way to make it not do that?

Edit: This is specifically about linux boot. It otherwise works fine in bios / bootloader

For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

When I refer to Linux, I am referring to a computer with the kernel and other software that makes up a Personal Computer.

I like to think that Linux is great, and always will be, a Personal Computer. Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.

I switched to Linux in 2020, Ubuntu, and slowly learned my ways around, and understanding how everything works, but most people don’t have to now, it’s so simple to get started.

is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?

I use Jabref for papers and books. I group and rate them and keep track of reading status. There are a lot of websites that also provide valuable information but firefox' bookmark manager can't be used to rate sites or make comments. I can manually add links which is cumbersome.

Is there a similar tool like jabref for internet links?

In the optimal case it would take firefox' bookmarks and work with them such that I can bookmark a site with Ctrl+D and do all the site related work within that manager.

edit: Bonus, if it automatically fetches the article to preserve it