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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 Thexalon on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:42PM
For what it's worth, as someone who kept System76's original setup on a box I don't use for my heavy dev work, it's not terrible: They have a special kernel module for specific hardware they have, and a few other tweaks, but I think this is about more than just re-branding Ubuntu. It gives them the power to say "no" to Canonical, and that's not a bad thing.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.