The Kubuntu Focus KDE Linux Laptop Arrives

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Kubuntu Focus KDE Linux Laptop Arrives

Soft-announced earlier this week was the Kubuntu Focus as a high-end Linux laptop pre-loaded with the KDE flavor of Ubuntu. The Kubuntu Focus produced in cooperation with Mindshare Management, Kubuntu itself, and German manufacturer Tuxedo Computers will officially launch in January and begin shipping shortly thereafter while a review sample arrived in our lab today...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kubuntu-Focus-KDE-Laptop-Here

[JMB9]

Looks Qt!

[Duff~]

Aye.

[Djhg2000]

What is it with whese "Linux friendly" computer manufacturers putting NVIDIA graphics in their products? Surely AMD must have something to offer?

[arQon]

What is it with whese "Linux friendly" computer manufacturers putting NVIDIA graphics in their products? Surely AMD must have something to offer?

AMD hasn't had anything to offer for years, until recently. Given the lead time on manufacturing, it absolutely makes sense that a laptop being released today is using nvidia.
That might not change even now, as even the 5500 isn't really power-competitive despite the node advantage. But it's probably VIABLE at least, if a manufacturer wants to go with AMD for a machine that they're designing NOW.

Also, what's with the WASD highlights, ffs? WASD is the arrow keys of the 21st century: it's "we're n00bs trying to pretend we're gamers".

[Mario Junior]

>nvidia with KDE
And here we fucking go...

[starshipeleven]

What is it with whese "Linux friendly" computer manufacturers putting NVIDIA graphics in their products? Surely AMD must have something to offer?

It's not "manufacturers" but "Clevo rebranders"
The actual manufacturer is Clevo, and Clevo does not make AMD laptops at all.

Actually designing and producing a laptop is MINDBOGGINGLY EXPENSIVE and they will never sell enough laptops to turn a profit, at any price.

[Almindor]

AMD hasn't had anything to offer for years, until recently. Given the lead time on manufacturing, it absolutely makes sense that a laptop being released today is using nvidia.
That might not change even now, as even the 5500 isn't really power-competitive despite the node advantage. But it's probably VIABLE at least, if a manufacturer wants to go with AMD for a machine that they're designing NOW.

Also, what's with the WASD highlights, ffs? WASD is the arrow keys of the 21st century: it's "we're n00bs trying to pretend we're gamers".

I use WASD as arrow keys with my hipster 60% custom made keyboard

[ssokolow]

Qt is really showing its ugly commercial face right now.
https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=157662046705314&w=2

Ugh. What makes it even worse is that GTK is probably sufficiently beneath their notice as a competitor for them to be doing this because they recognize what a good job GNOME devs are doing at making GTK unappealing as an alternative for Qt-using developers.

[ssokolow]

ssokolow That’s a perfect example of cognitive dissonance. Qt screws over KDE and Freedom. You respond with a disassociated and unrelated rant. Like that is going to change anything at Qt.

No, I just said that it adds insult to injury that developers like me who migrated from GTK+ 2.x to Qt 5.x are probably so irrelevant that they don't even realize they're doing this at the perfect time to twist our arms.

(For added context, I ran KDE 3.5, then moved to LXDE for KDE 4.0, then finally migrated back to KDE around maybe KDE 4.8 or whatever version it was that Kubuntu 14.04 LTS had. I just used to develop for GTK+ 2.x because it was more likely that something had already pulled it in as a dependency on all desktops including KDE ones. )