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Windows worked flawlessly.
Kubuntu had massive issues with other things, but I didn't test Sleep (due to those other issues I only had it for a day or two).
Did you nuke your Tuxedo OS install? It would have been better to, at least, have a look at system logs to see if there's anything there.
What problems exactly did you have with Kubuntu?
No, I'm still running it. Other than Sleep, everything else works mostly fine. Just the regular "linuxiness" here and there that's either easy to sort out, or easy to ignore.
Wow, that's a whole list... :D
On my laptop, I had zero touchpad gestures. Once I switched from X11 to Wayland I managed to get Firefox to handle pinch-to-zoom and forward/back, but nothing else and in no other application.
Bluetooth drivers were crap, made my $300 headphones sound like $10 headphones.
I accidentally set the wrong keyboard language during installation, changed it without any issues after signing in... But to this day that previous layout pops up on the login screen. The only advice I found online required quite heavy Terminal "hacking"... and didn't work anyway.
Updates are all over the place. They're coming in constantly, practically every day, often requiring a reboot. It also doesn't install any updates on its own, so even if there are smaller, security updates that don't require a reboot, you have to manually click through the notification and apply them. There was supposed to be another "hack" that makes it apply updates automatically, but it doesn't work.
I recently connected my Linux laptop to an external screen. All good, but... The login screen was displayed on both monitors. I clicked the login field on the external screen, started typing and nothing happened. Fiddled with that for a bit before, just out of curiosity, trying again, but this time fully on the laptop screen. Worked like a charm, zero issues.
That was the laptop. Then on my PC, I suddenly realised that I have not application menu (the one with "File", "View", "Edit", etc.). Just gone. Wasn't able to restore it.
Also, my secondary SSD would not stay mounted. Any time I rebooted, it was just gone - and that was a problem for me because I had my Steam library there and wanted to have Steam auto-starting on logon. That I was able to fix by editing
fstab, but was still super annoying.The move to Tuxedo OS was very smooth. Almost everything worked out of the box (still had to do the
fstabbit), the Bluetoot driver is MUCH better, updates are more controlled. It's just this bloody Sleep feature that doesn't work. :DHmm, let me clarify some of the challenges you had.
Lack of touchpad gestures is due X11. It simply does not support anything you may be used to from Windows or macOS. X11 is currently regarded as a legacy display system due it's lack of modern features (such as VR, VRR and HDR) and security issues. Firefox supports your typical Wayland gestures since it is one of the few apps implementing new Linux features properly. On Windows and macOS you are locked down to a particular windowing system, so applications can expect such features being available on every single system reliably. The number of choices Linux presents to its users is also the greatest weakness of it, in my opinion. Wayland is still relatively new in most used distributions and I expect things to get better in the next five years.
Majority of the drivers are baked into the kernel on Linux. Without knowing the version of Kubuntu you were using, it is hard to judge why Tuxedo OS played better with your headphones. I am using Sony WH-1000XM5 on Fedora with kernel 6.13 and works perfectly.
Regarding updates: almost every package on nearly every Linux distro (except the kernel) can be updated without rebooting. It is just that Ubuntu (Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop) is configured to apply updates at reboot to minimize any breakages. So is Fedora that I am using and I really like it. You can update the system through a terminal if you want to do so without rebooting.
The login issue you encountered is due to SDDM - login manager used by KDE Plasma. KDE is planning to replace it with something they develop themselves.
I don't really understand this one. Did the toolbar just disappear from all apps? They usually do that when you add a global menu widget to your desktop, but shouldn't otherwise.
Automatic mounting of drives is done easiest through editing the
/etc/fstabfile in Linux. I am not aware any other methods that are more user-friendly.Unless you have a specific reason for using Tuxedo OS, I would highly recommend Fedora with KDE Plasma desktop environment. Tuxedo OS is still pretty niche and targets Tuxedo's (the company) own laptops. Fedora has much larger user base so issues like this are solved faster. It also ships with the latest versions of the kernel, so you'll have less driver issues.
That's the problem - it never did apply the updates. I even tested that by manually telling it to download them all and then rebooting once they were all ready to install. I had to re-download them all after logging back in.
I also noticed that one account was always getting app updates while OS updates were ONLY showing up for the primary account,
I get how this may be "by design", but it's an infuriating design. :D
Correct. It was just not there. I was able to add the Global Toolbar widget and get a "Mac-like" experience, or add it as a hamburger button on the titlebar, but that's it.
Which is also extremely bad design, if you ask me. For removable drives - sure, why not. But if it's a bloody NVMe sitting on the motherboard? Also: there just should be a prompt going "do you want to auto-mount this" the moment the user mounts it through Dolphin for the first time.
As of right now, I'm having a great time with Tuxedo OS - other than the Sleep function not working, everything else is smooth sailing. I don't want to use Fedora, because I'm more familiar (if still barely) with the Debian Linux family.
Is there an easy way to check the kernel version I'm running vs the latest available?
Most graphical system updaters (e.g Discover) use
packagekitinstead of calling onaptdirectly. This may lead to them having conflicting list of upgradable packages. Updating through either way will eventually refresh the cache and things will go back to normal.I have never had to share a computer with other people, so can't really comment on that.
I did try messing around with my Plasma desktop to try and replicate that, but did not find that option. Though, I am sure that's configurable and you changed it accidentally. You should ask around KDE forums about that.
I understand your frustration as an end-user, coming from other operating systems. But, you should keep in mind that Linux is just the kernel and it was made to be as modular as possible. Since you can use it with many different desktops, there needs to be a common way apps from those desktops can perform this. I believe Gnome can do this graphically through its Disks utility, which just edits the
/etc/fstabfile in the background. ~~You could request this feature from the KDE developers though.~~Edit: sorry, I now remember KDE Partition Manager and it can do the same, like Gnome Disks.
Since you are new to Linux, the differences Fedora and Ubuntu will have for you will come down to the package manager (
dnfvs.apt), and since you prefer to update your system graphically, you shouldn't notice any difference.You can find your kernel version by searching "About this System" in KDE Plasma, or using the following command:
The latest version of the kernel can be found in the official website of the Linux kernel.