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Vinzenz Vietzke of TUXEDO Computers announced today that the German electronics manufacturer, which is known for selling laptops and desktop computers that ship pre-loaded with Linux, created their own distro.
The news comes just a week after System76 computer reseller announced Pop!_OS as their own GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and the GNOME desktop environment, and it now looks like TUXEDO Computers follow suit and announce TUXEDO Xubuntu, their own Xubuntu-based distro, which will power all of their computers in the near future.
"We have been working on this project for several months. We have been thinking about the usability of the desktop, have included user feedback in our considerations and made some surveys on desktop usage," says Vinzenz Vietzke. "The result of our research, surveys and countless tests is now that we have chosen Xfce based on Ubuntu."
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:31PM
Exactly. The fact that SOMEBODY, anybody, SPEC'ed a machin that works with any curent distro makes it it a good choice for any other.
So other than THAT, I don't see anything they have to offer here.
I'm sure both of these two companies will hang a theme and a few web links on an otherwise stock ubuntu / gnome / xfce package and try to make it something unique.
Does the world need yet another Ubunto clone? Is there any point in yet another Gnome re-packaging? And Isn't XFCE pretty much out-slimmed by LXDE and soon LXQt?
(All else being equal, XFCE these days uses about 100 meg less memory than your typical KDE/Plasma5 install. Its not any faster in use, but it is faster to start up. Just install ANYBODY's LXDE to be astounded how fast Linux can be on modest hardware).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.