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These guys rebrand Clevo hardware for laptops, (or at least they used to). The article makes it sound like they are designing the laptops themselves. Which is

These guys rebrand Clevo hardware for laptops, (or at least they used to). The article makes it sound like they are designing the laptops themselves. Which is usually how it is presented, and I think it is a bit misleading. Several other Linux computer companies use Clevo as well. A lot of those machines get great reviews and satisfied customers. I am not saying that Clevo is bad, I am just stating that they rebrand. """The Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Gen4 is a very powerful desktop replacement gaming laptop designed by Clevo. """ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tuxedo-launches-liquid-cooled-linux-laptop https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tuxedo-launches-liquid-coo...

acomjean 2y ago
System 76 and a lot of others do the same (rebranding from a contract manufacturer). My recently retired 6 year old machine from them was a rebranded clevo (a fan went a couple years ago and I had to find a replacement). The clevo model# was on the sticker on the bottom. Its lasted and pretty well built.
zamalek 2y ago
Many Clevo machines use NVIDIA. The current status of NVIDIA+KDE is flickering under Wayland and stuttering under X11 (source: helping a friend upgrade from Windows last weekend and subsequent search results). Avoid at all costs. I have had great success with my iGPU AMD System76 and dGPU AMD desktop. Intel is probably fine too.
- jsheard 2y ago
  Yeah, even if they are just rebranding ODM laptops they can still add value by validating that the specific configurations they sell play nice with Linux.
  - mariusor 2y ago
    Not to mention they send patches and build applications to help with linux support.
_ph_ 2y ago
I think the point about Tuxedo is, that they are selling the (rebranded) laptops with explicit Linux support. So you can have the trust, that things work. That is often the truth for many laptops, but few other manufacturers guarantee that.
yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
If Clevo was making Linux-compatible ARM laptops, surely that would be even better news? (Since it would imply that we're about to see lots of very-slightly-differentiated Linux-compatible ARM laptops)

acomjean 2y ago

System 76 and a lot of others do the same (rebranding from a contract manufacturer). My recently retired 6 year old machine from them was a rebranded clevo (a fan went a couple years ago and I had to find a replacement). The clevo model# was on the sticker on the bottom. Its lasted and pretty well built.

zamalek 2y ago

Many Clevo machines use NVIDIA. The current status of NVIDIA+KDE is flickering under Wayland and stuttering under X11 (source: helping a friend upgrade from Windows last weekend and subsequent search results). Avoid at all costs. I have had great success with my iGPU AMD System76 and dGPU AMD desktop. Intel is probably fine too.

jsheard 2y ago
Yeah, even if they are just rebranding ODM laptops they can still add value by validating that the specific configurations they sell play nice with Linux.
- mariusor 2y ago
  Not to mention they send patches and build applications to help with linux support.

_ph_ 2y ago

I think the point about Tuxedo is, that they are selling the (rebranded) laptops with explicit Linux support. So you can have the trust, that things work. That is often the truth for many laptops, but few other manufacturers guarantee that.

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago

If Clevo was making Linux-compatible ARM laptops, surely that would be even better news? (Since it would imply that we're about to see lots of very-slightly-differentiated Linux-compatible ARM laptops)