TUXEDO OS

Reader supplied reviews for TUXEDO OS Average rating 8.4 from 58 review(s) What are your thoughts on TUXEDO OS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 20260113202512183-202410082-202403271-20220929 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 20260113 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-11 Country: Spain Votes: 1 Tuxedo OS es lo que debería ser cualquier distro: funciona. Sin florituras inútiles, sin romperse por actualizar, sin obligarte a perder horas afinando detalles absurdos. Arranca rápido, es estable y el hardware está bien soportado, como debe ser. No intenta reinventar Linux, lo ejecuta correctamente. Si quieres trabajar y no hacer de beta tester eterno, aquí tienes un sistema serio. Sólido, coherente y sin tonterías. Así es como se hacen las cosas. Y sí, compila antes de que termines el café. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20251218 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-02-09 Country: Serbia Votes: 2 I was looking for an alternative to a Linux Mint. My reasons against Mint - Older packages (especially around UI), - Not good support for Wayland - Not everything working perfectly in the UI - Flatpack packages in Mint are huge (for missing or old software in Mint/Ubuntu). At the same time, I liked - Ubuntu DEB base and number of directly vendor supported third party repositories/packages. - Absence of "evil" Snaps - Very good community support - Excellent upgrade support - Very good UI (Cinnamon) - Unified package manager - Good updates through UI (notifications/automation/configurations...) - Stable support I chose TUXEDO as closest to a Linux Mint philosophically. I'll try to explain differences PROS: 1. All relevant DEB packages from Ubuntu (and third party repositories) are there, "evil" Snaps are not enabled, Flatpacks are enabled. This is similar setup as in Mint, but Flatpacks are much smaller then in Mint (lot of them just few MB) and actually usable. 2. Very good (excellent) Wayland support (there is an option when installing between Wayland and X11). 3. If you like KDE Plasma, this is latest and greatest. Personally, I dislike default style used in file manager (too much stretched) and touch screen auto rotation does not work (seems to be known KDE related bug) and touchscreen keyboard is somewhat flaky, but everything else seems to be configured to my liking and works perfectly with my desktops and laptops with touchscreen/tablet configurations. 4. Updates/new package manager (through KDE center) works pretty well. Synaptic may still be required for individual DEB packages (if you don't use command line). Mint's approach seem nicer/better integrated in a desktop. 5. Packages (TUXEDO and upstream) are updated consistently and so far without any issues. Upstream (both) Ubuntu and KDE are maintained well and TUXEDO adds patches when/where needed. They seem to be doing pretty good testing on laptops and their hardware before pushing updates. 6. Very good support for Laptops (touchscreen, special keys, attaching/connecting to different devices/monitors, etc.) CONS: 1. It required more knowledge to workaround quirks before and after installation. I had to manually adjust installation script (what was probably fixed afterwards) to work on one of my desktop machines. Installation persisted some settings from a live USB, that I had to later search for and adjust manually on the file system. 2. Community support is not something you may relay on if you get stuck (or need something custom/support for specific hardware). Anything that is Linux/Ubuntu/KDE generic question/issue, you may have to look for help upstream/elsewhere. 3. Same as on Mint, support for ZFS is not present by default/during install. Others mentioned neither BTRFS or snapshots are. 4. On one of the desktops with hard disk (and 64GB of RAM), there is a weird intermittent freeze of the UI for few seconds. I used defaults for file system (lvm2+ext4) and do have disk encryption on it, but other Linux installs (like Mint) did not have same issues (even with ZFS) on the same hardware. Other machines I have TUXEDO installed on, do not have same issue. Overall, I am pretty satisfied. Taking one star due to weak community support and few issues I mentioned. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20251218 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-12-27 Votes: 10 This is the distro that stopped my distro-hopping addiction. Running on a FrameWork 16, it works fine with minimal configuration. Its like Linux Mint but for people who prefer the KDE desktop. Tuxedo is geared toward Tuxedo computers but my FrameWork computers run it without issue. No Snaps to fight with, just use the flatpaks, deb packages and Ubuntu repositories to keep it running. This distro has been my daily driver for a couple of years now. Not much else to say, it comes with most of the apps I need and its simple to install the ones it doesn't come with. KDE lover, give this lesser known distro a try. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 58 reader reviews of TUXEDO OS...