I'm not a Kubuntu user, but I'm happy to see a notebook with KDE. In addition, the optimizations made will certainly improve the experience.
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Is the manufacturer suicidal or what ?
How can anyone make a Linux laptop with Nvidia ?
For me this is definitely DOA.
I will never buy a laptop that contains a garbage part (Nvidia GPU).
And of course in a few years, when Nvidia decides to stop supporting their GPU on the proprietary driver, this will become real garbage.
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Originally posted by Danny3 View PostIs the manufacturer suicidal or what ?
How can anyone make a Linux laptop with Nvidia ?
For me this is definitely DOA.
I will never buy a laptop that contains a garbage part (Nvidia GPU).
And of course in a few years, when Nvidia decides to stop supporting their GPU on the proprietary driver, this will become real garbage.
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Originally posted by Danny3 View PostIs the manufacturer suicidal or what ?
How can anyone make a Linux laptop with Nvidia ?
For me this is definitely DOA.
I will never buy a laptop that contains a garbage part (Nvidia GPU).
And of course in a few years, when Nvidia decides to stop supporting their GPU on the proprietary driver, this will become real garbage.
Open source is awesome... but not if it costs performance.
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Originally posted by zexelon View Post
Personally I have to say the choice to go Nvidia is the right one. Open source graphics drivers by and large blow chunks. I run Nvidia with the proprietary drivers on both my desktop and my M.L. box and it rocks!
Open source is awesome... but not if it costs performance.
Could the AMD drivers use more work? Absolutely. I have a short list of features I'd like to see (chief among them proper 3D quad buffered surfaces), but none of them could make me even think of going back to NVIDIA. The last NVIDIA card I used dates from back in the GK104 days, and ran nouveau, not the proprietary driver -- that switch was done after the more significant driver CVEs started coming out and NVIDIA showed no signs of taking financial responsibility for stolen user data...
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Originally posted by danmcgrew View PostWhat's the cost of this unit?
You can find the Clevo960RD for less, but it will have a pokey SSD, 8GB of RAM, etc. Once you add back the options and an enterprise OS (e.g. W10 Pro) the price will be similar, but you won't have that awesome optimization and run-from-the-web-page capability found at https://kfocus.org/support
To paraphrase Lee Iacocca, if you can find a better works-out-of-the-box, enterprise-ready laptop, buy it.Last edited by deppman; 16 January 2020, 01:43 AM.
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Originally posted by Paradigm Shifter View PostThat KDE theme looks pretty good. Is that the default for Kubuntu? With the taskbar on the right? Or custom for this laptop?
I'll download the 19.10 iso and have a quick look.
It is also tuned for the hardware through kernel modules and other settings. Things that happen when you load Kubntu on the p960rd directly (like sound not working, or show desktop grid hanging for 20s, or crashing file indexing, no keyboard RGB controls, or dozens of other big and little niggles) are fixed on the Focus. Quite frankly, this is the laptop I've wanted for years as a software architect but could never get from any vendor. And I've been buying and advocating S76 for many years.Last edited by deppman; 16 January 2020, 01:52 AM.
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