TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware vendor from Germany
TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware vendor from Germany
Linux Hardware, Notebooks, Computer und mehr. Individuell in Deutschland gefertigt, vollständig Linux tauglich, Windows natürlich auch
Linux hardware, notebooks, computers and more. Individually manufactured in Germany, fully Linux-compatible, Windows too, of course
They're on the fediverse too! @tuxedocomputers
Just a piece of recent personal experience with Tuxedo:
Getting on in years, I had a yearning to do some dev work and thought I’d dip a toe back into the world of Linux. Going way back, I first used Linux back in 1993 (v0.99 iirc). Along with a FreeBSD box, it became my daily driver until around 2003. My last distro of choice was Mandrake, which I loved. With the advent of Apple’s unix based OSX, I jumped ship and never really gave Linux a second thought for over two decades. I occasionally flirted with Raspberry Pis, most notably for a weather station running WeeWx and another running PiHole and local DNS.
Anyway, it’s 2025 and I started looking around for some hardware. Tinkering with drivers and kernel modules etc held no interest for me and I was looking for something a bit more “turn key”. I wasn’t expecting to find the Linux equivalent of a MacBook Pro, but my interest was piqued by System76 and I then discovered Tuxedo. It took me a while to pull the trigger as I might have been buying an expensive white elephant, but I eventually ordered an Intel InfinityBook Pro 15.
The ordering process was smooth (lots of info about options and some really decent tech info on their website) and the laptop shipped about 10 days later via UPS. I was expecting it to get stuck in a post-Brexit clown show at UK customs, but I payed the custom fees to UPS directly while the shipment was in transit. It arrived, beautifully packaged about 4 days later.
I am genuinely speechless about the product. Bear in mind it’s over 20 years since I last used Linux in anger. Just to provide some context, KDE was on version 3 and I only ever used Gnome 1. Linux today bears very little comparison with the world I left, and man was it an OS revelation! The hardware is well made; the screen is stunning, and I have zero regrets purchasing a laptop from Tuxedo and would buy another without a second thought.
The only problem I’ve had in the last 6 weeks is a kernel message regarding USB ports timing out during shutdown. Ten minutes online and I realised it was a power saving issue which was solved with a simple config change to Grub.
Other than that, I’ve been back writing code for the first time in a lifetime and am having a ball. I now spend about 80% of my time using the InfintyBook and about 20% on my Macbook.
In short, based on a data set of a single purchase, I’d thoroughly recommend Tuxedo if you have the cash and are looking for something made and supported by a company in the EU.
I looked at them the other day, seems very interesting!
If you have any questions for them, they're on the fediverse too! @tuxedocomputers@linuxrocks.online
Awesome! Thnx!
The notebooks aren't too bad but the PCs seem very overpriced.
You may be able to buy them locally, I am in Spain and used deep gaming https://deepgaming.es/
I live in Germany so of course I can buy them locally. They only sell through their own website, as far as I know.
No 13" model? :(
It always amazes me how much people love 13" laptops. There's nothing wrong with it at all, but I just find it cool that there's kind of an SFF laptop community.
I think the 14" has thin bezels so its basically the size of a 13" but with a larger screen real estate.
That's actually a good point. I just checked the dimensions and it's about the same size as my current 13" which has quite large bezels.
I have a Pulse 15 from like 5 years ago and I'm still quite happy with that machine.