Just a piece of recent personal experience with Tuxedo:
Getting on in years, I had a yearning to do some dev work and thought Iโd 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 Appleโs 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, itโs 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 โturn keyโ. I wasnโt 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 itโs 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 Iโve 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, Iโve 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, Iโd thoroughly recommend Tuxedo if you have the cash and are looking for something made and supported by a company in the EU.