Has anyone found a good EU laptop option? Slimbook look like they’ve got some good products but I’m having trouble finding reviews.
@mstevens I know I am being silly. But Raspberry 5 is all made in the UK. You could build a laptop based on that (or the board from a Raspberry Pi 500) 😊
Anything with Linux on it?
VANT 🇪🇸 @vantpc
Tuxedo 🇩🇪 @tuxedocomputers
Slimbook 🇪🇸 @slimbook
NovaCustom 🇳🇱 @novacustom
Laptop with Linux – Comexr B.V. 🇳🇱: https://laptopwithlinux.com/Slimbook, Tuxedo Computers, and Star Labs are the only three I can think of at the moment. I’ve never used any of them though.
I have a TUXEDO Book BU1407.
The hardware support is quite good. It works with mainline Linux without requiring proprietary drivers or firmware.
But the laptop is very noisy. Sometimes I have to put a T-shirt or something under it when I want to watch a movie in silence without hearing all the vibrations it causes on the desk.
It also has a big bright power LED that is very annoying and I have to cover it when I use it in dark environments.
In five years, I had to replace the battery or power supply twice, which they didn’t sell and I had to buy from third parties. When I contacted support to try to diagnose why my laptop was not charging, their reply included expressions like “We can’t do magic. […] We can’t see into the future and we can’t be clairvoyant either” which I found very rude and unprofessional.
For all these reasons, I will not buy TUXEDO again and I think I will give Slimbook a try the next time I need to buy a laptop.
it seems like Slimbook uses pretty much the same things as Tuxedo, they’re really really similar
