TUXEDO Computers is rebasing TUXEDO OS on Debian, moving away from Ubuntu. The German Linux hardware company launched TUXEDO OS in 2022, using a fixed Ubuntu LTS base, KDE Plasma and scores of optimisations and first-party software to support its own hardware – though it was free to download and install on any machine. Four years into that approach, TUXEDO’s had enough. TUXEDO lists a number of reasons behind ditching Ubuntu for Debian. Among them, the LTS base. The company brings newer browsers, GPU drivers and Plasma desktop versions to users, but backporting core Qt packages can break Ubuntu-repo packages, […]