Overview: Kubuntu, its parent and some of its siblings

[oshunluvr]

It's been a month! I'm curious, what did you finally get for her?
Asking for a friend!

Well, it's "new" to her, lol.

I upgraded my system which included mobo, RAM, and CPU. My wife has been using a circa 2013 laptop with Win 8 Pro on it and it's starting to show it's age. I had enough parts from my upgrade and various previous builds to offer her a "new" desktop PC by only purchasing a PSU and case. It's my old i7-6700K with 16GB RAM on an Asus ROG "Strix"ITX mobo. When I upgraded my system I moved to NVME drives that were PCIe 4.0 so she inherited a PCIe 3.0 NVME drive and a couple SATA SSD's for backups. The only other component she needs is a second monitor because her work requires two.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Good bye Kubuntu 23.04 - welcome Kubuntu 23.10 !

[Beerislife]

I downloaded Tuxedo OS but haven't had a chance to play with it. I like the idea that it's de-snapped and uses KDE Neon Plasma! It might be worth installing on another machine!

[Schwarzer Kater]

So far I have had no problems at all with TUXEDO OS. But I think I will test it for another 9 months or so before I use it as a "main" OS - I am curious what happens in *Ubuntu 24.04 and as a consequence in KDE neon and TUXEDO OS…
IMHO it is definitely worth "playing with".

[Beerislife]

I enabled the Tuxedo repo on my KDE Neon install to play with their Control Centre app. On my system the fan control was greyed out and not configurable.

[claydoh]

On my system the fan control was greyed out and not configurable.

Probably more specific to Tuxedo's particular hardware. Or, possibly, a missing dep that Tuxedo may include by default via some meta-package, and it wasn't included in the dependency list their deb for the application.
I'd check if lm-sensors was installed.

oooh maybe this:

Note: TCC depends on the tuxedo-io module from the tuxedo-keyboard package for some core functionality like fan control.

[Beerislife]

Tuxedo-keyboard was installed as a dependency and I have lm-sensors installed...

I'll have a look when I wake up in a minute....

[claydoh]

I can't remember if just having lm-sensors installed is enough - you might need to actually run its setup: sensors-detect
I am almost positive that I needed to run this for all of my systems to have fan speed reporting and control, on my neon, Kubuntu computers and my Debian-based NAS server.

Of course, this can be hardware specific, and sensors-detect checks for everything. pretty much, then adds and loads the appropriate kernel modules.

[Schwarzer Kater]

I think most of the Tuxedo programs work with their own hardware only - one can use parts of some of them, but I have not found those parts very useful to be honest.

[kc1di]

Thanks for the chart Schwarzer Kater interesting info.

[Beerislife]

I just booted Tuxedo on my Beelink Mini PC and it's the first distro (kernel) to see the WiFi adaptor!

I'll install it when this headache goes!

[Schwarzer Kater]

Added Kubuntu Focus 22.04 LTS.

[kc1di]

Nice info, thanks for posting.

[MoonRise]

Just to note, Tuxedo is using KDE Neon's repos for it's Plasma.

And to note on that, my work PC is similar to Tuxedo pcs and I have KDE Neon installed and use Tuxedo's repos on it. I have Neon but with the pc tidbits needed to ensure hardware works!

System works great!

[Montmorency]

One question.
With Debian, if you use backports will it upgrade both the Kernel and Mesa?