If you want to run Linux on a new PC, you have fewer options than if you want the default of Windows. Of course, you can just buy a Windows laptop and

Tuxedo Pulse G2: Linux in your lap

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2022-07-06 20:00:05

If you want to run Linux on a new PC, you have fewer options than if you want the default of Windows. Of course, you can just buy a Windows laptop and hope that everything works. This means paying for an OS you don't want and accepting the risk that some things don't work when running a Linux OS, don't have drivers, and so on.

The PC maker may well not accept such incompatibilities as grounds for return, and in any case, by the time you discover them, you may have removed or modified the pre-loaded OS and can't return the machine anyway.

One answer is to buy a machine with Linux pre-installed. In the US, System76 is well established, and it will ship internationally. Less known in the Anglosphere is German vendor Tuxedo Computers, which is one of main players in this market in Europe. It has a variety of models, from smaller 14-inch ultraportables to 17-inch powerhouses.

It has an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U CPU, with eight cores and 16 threads. The GPU is a CPU-integrated Radeon RX Vega 8, with eight cores running at up to 1900MHz. Tuxedo has increased the CPU's performance by fitting twin cooling fans, allowing them to overclock the chip and run it at 35W. These are reasonable performance boosts from the 2020 first-generation device, which had a Ryzen 7 4800H. The 15-inch HiDPI screen runs at 2560×1440, compared to the previous model's 1920×1080.

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