They don’t design all of their laptops, so it’s not always up to them. They order off-the-shelf designs with their logo from Clevo or some other ODM and tweak the firmware.

The model that I have uses the motorcomm yt6801 chip. There is apparently some work going on to upstream the driver by the OEM, but it largely stalled with the last comment being from a kernel maintainer 7 months ago

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/11/23/33

I’m using an Infinitybook Pro 14 gen 9. It came out last year.

You will most likely need the “tuxedo-drivers” package, but whether you’ll need an ethernet driver too depends on the hardware they choose.

At least they publish their drivers for both RPM and DEB systems, so that makes it a bit less painful.

Of course, none of this applies if you use their distro. There, everything is pre-installed and configured for their laptops

As much as I like my Tuxedo, I probably would not have bought it if I had known that the ethernet card and some laptop essentials dont work without their drivers, which have not been upstreamed. Due to this, I can’t use my distro of choice (Bluefin) OR run with secure boot and LUKS with tpm unlock even on regular Fedora

I had a brain fart and confused React with Electron…

An electron app still needs to be served by a web server, even if the actual business logic is all client-side

EDIT: Electron, not React…

Why does it have to be one or the other?

I, as someone who spends so much time in the terminal that I literally have a dedicated key to open it, would prefer a single CLI command. My grandma, who thinks the monitor is the entire computer, would do better with the “inefficient” GUI option

There can be more than one correct way to do something