Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review

I am forced to use tuxedo for work. The laptops are chronically unreliable, with random freezes, shutdowns and component failures on a daily basis, even though we have recommended Ubuntu LTS installations. Their software additions are quite amateurish and the support poor. System76 or Framework are probably a better bet.

The presence of the numberpad plus the absence of physical buttons below the touchpad combo puts this laptop in my personal no buy quadrant. Those are probably non issues or actually positive features for most people (especially the buttons) but let me promote my preferences. I'm waiting for a touchpad with buttons module for the Framework laptop, then I could buy that laptop.

I&#x27;ve been using an ASUS TUF A16 Advantage edition (I think &quot;Advantage&quot; is the ASUS branding for an all-AMD version) as a Linux-first gaming and productivity laptop. It&#x27;s really good! It comes with an extra m2 slot, and the RAM is easily reached. For $790 (on sale, Best Buy does them semi regularly) I got a 7735HS, a 7600S (not great but workable), and a really solid display. For another $140 I threw in 32GB of faster RAM and another TB of drive. Sub $950 pre-tax for a great linux friendly device.<p>It&#x27;s an easy recommend for anyone in the market. I think they have higher spec&#x27;d versions, too, but imho the value proposition is really in the low&#x2F;mid range.<p>I do hate the keyboard layout, but generally leave the laptop connected to an external kb as a part of the setup.

Personally, I&#x27;m looking forward to this from Minisforum: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minisforum.com&#x2F;page&#x2F;v3&#x2F;index.html?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minisforum.com&#x2F;page&#x2F;v3&#x2F;index.html?lang=en</a><p>I don&#x27;t know how well it will run linux (Pop to be specific) but I&#x27;ve got 3 other Minisforum AMD machines and they all run Pop great!

Why is it that non-macbooks are full of odd hardware compromises? For example, as follows from the video review, this laptop has huge screen bezels, bottom-firing speakers, and a crappy microphone. Why isn&#x27;t there a company that would produce nearly macbook-quality laptops (albeit without the M-series ARM processor), but reliably linux-friendly?

Any laptop that is still 16:9 resolution is a never purchase for me. That resolution needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

I&#x27;m using Tuxedo for the last year for work and it&#x27;s been amazing. I&#x27;ve been using the InfinityBookPro. Their support is insanely good, they even helped me troubleshoot OS issues caused by my own stupidity, quite often.<p>In terms of quality, I find that the modularity of the laptop under the hood is amazing. I can tinker and change stuff with ease. Battery lasts ~9 hours while coding, browsing, watching videos, and video calls.<p>I will highly likely buy more for my company as needed.

Great video, Nick! I&#x27;m not sure if you browse HN much but keep up the great videos. I have been subbed for at least 3 years and I catch most of your content.

Anybody have some hands-on experience with Tuxedo using with any major non-Ubuntu based distribution? Say, Arch or Debian?

I feel like I still need CUDA if there isn&#x27;t something like an M3. Because I want to be able to experiment with LLMs and Stable Diffusion and whatever other models come out.<p>Does llama.cpp work with Radeon? Wait.. maybe ollama and Stable Diffusion will actually work with ROCm now?<p>I still suspect I am going to be swimming upstream if I experiment with newer or less common models on Python ML scripts on non-Nvidia hardware.

Am I the only one who was surprised to see video not on YouTube but on some peer-to-peer selfhosting (as I understand it)?

I&#x27;d like a seriously nice 16-17&quot; laptop with a great screen, FANTASTIC battery life, expanability, huge port support.

I will just thinkpad, and if I ever needed I will ssh into my server&#x2F;station, I think that’s the best combo

I wonder what&#x27;s the interest compared to the Framework 16 with its repairable and evolution qualities.

Does it have ECC and Coreboot &#x2F; Libreboot support?

Looks lovely