This week I was talking to a fellow student at my university. He was thinking about buying a laptop to replace his aging Microsoft Surface device. He also expressed interest in trying Linux and asked specifically which laptop I was using. So I said: “That’s a laptop made by TUXEDO Computers. It’s actually pretty cool because the company is located here in Augsburg and they even sponsor our Formula Student team. They ship laptops with Linux pre-installed if you want. Also, you’ll get a discount as a student.”
I have not fully understood the meaning or significance of these news and the content of this article. I have a Tuxedo laptop, and for now I am happy with Tuxedo OS. But I am of course interested in the ability to change distro at some point.
Am I understanding it correctly that I will have a very hard time doing so without patching the kernel myself to ensure proper hardware support? And even then it will be difficult?
No, this is mainly about power profiles and things like changing the colour of the keyboard lights, details that usually dont work anyway on laptops. Or at least it didnt work on the ones I had.
You can still install other distros, but the power profiles won’t work well, and you might fry your cpu if the fans don’t kick in – for example.