Just a piece of recent personal experience with Tuxedo:

Getting on in years, I had a yearning to do some dev work and thought I’d dip a toe back into the world of Linux. Going way back, I first used Linux back in 1993 (v0.99 iirc). Along with a FreeBSD box, it became my daily driver until around 2003. My last distro of choice was Mandrake, which I loved. With the advent of Apple’s unix based OSX, I jumped ship and never really gave Linux a second thought for over two decades. I occasionally flirted with Raspberry Pis, most notably for a weather station running WeeWx and another running PiHole and local DNS.

Anyway, it’s 2025 and I started looking around for some hardware. Tinkering with drivers and kernel modules etc held no interest for me and I was looking for something a bit more “turn key”. I wasn’t expecting to find the Linux equivalent of a MacBook Pro, but my interest was piqued by System76 and I then discovered Tuxedo. It took me a while to pull the trigger as I might have been buying an expensive white elephant, but I eventually ordered an Intel InfinityBook Pro 15.

The ordering process was smooth (lots of info about options and some really decent tech info on their website) and the laptop shipped about 10 days later via UPS. I was expecting it to get stuck in a post-Brexit clown show at UK customs, but I payed the custom fees to UPS directly while the shipment was in transit. It arrived, beautifully packaged about 4 days later.

I am genuinely speechless about the product. Bear in mind it’s over 20 years since I last used Linux in anger. Just to provide some context, KDE was on version 3 and I only ever used Gnome 1. Linux today bears very little comparison with the world I left, and man was it an OS revelation! The hardware is well made; the screen is stunning, and I have zero regrets purchasing a laptop from Tuxedo and would buy another without a second thought.

The only problem I’ve had in the last 6 weeks is a kernel message regarding USB ports timing out during shutdown. Ten minutes online and I realised it was a power saving issue which was solved with a simple config change to Grub.

Other than that, I’ve been back writing code for the first time in a lifetime and am having a ball. I now spend about 80% of my time using the InfintyBook and about 20% on my Macbook.

In short, based on a data set of a single purchase, I’d thoroughly recommend Tuxedo if you have the cash and are looking for something made and supported by a company in the EU.

Like a lot of people, I’ve done the full tour from Mosaic, through Mozilla and Phoenix/Firebird to Firefox and have spent much of the last quarter of a century in the Firefox fold. During that time I’ve also spent a fair time with one foot in the Safari camp and have occasionally checked in with Chrome (just to see what the fuss was about). A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Vivaldi and I realised recently that it’s sort of become my browser of choice. I love it’s customisation and speed and as OP said, it’s tab management is the best out there.

Sadly, it feels like were back in 2005 when IE ruled the roost and set the rules (very badly), and Chrome was the brave new world that was going to reclaim the web for the common man. Now we’re looking to Firefox to save the day. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but I honestly think there is genuine mileage in supporting projects like Vivaldi (whatever you may feel about Chromium), and let’s face it, it doesn’t take long to download a browser and check it out for a couple of hours.

I had my first migraine over 40 years ago and have been a regular headache suffer for most of my adult life. I’ve mentioned it to my doctor more times than I care to remember, and last August I mentioned it again. He told me to stop taking pain killers, I said “really, are you completely insane, they’re the only thing that make most days manageable!”. Anyway, I did what I was told, and although September was tough, I can’t actually believe the results.

I keep a bullet journal, and have some personal data of reasonable quality. During August 2022 I had a headache on 28 days out of 31 and 2 migraines (both in the same week). During July 2023 I had 1 headache and no migraines.

In a routine NHS email a few months later, I spotted this article:

https://patient.info/news-and-features/can-taking-painkillers-actually-give-you-headaches

I attribute a lot of my headache free life to this advice, and I’ve saved a boatload of cash from not buying my weekly collection of pain killers.

As other people have commented, it’s a complex medical area, but if you’ve tried everything else and pop pills regularly, it might be worth a shot…

Apple is my platform of choice these days. Full disclosure, I’m pretty well embedded in the Apple eco system and it’s been my consumer tech of choice for over 20 years.

I live in the UK and have recently cut the cord with Sky (for my non UK friends, Sky is essentially the equivalent of a cable service in the states), and I had a number of movies purchased through their store. Although I can still see those movies on an iPad, it’s not easy to watch them on a TV, so I’ve essentially lost those purchases.

In light of that experience, Apple feels the most future proof for me with Amazon Prime a close second.

I also recently “binned” most of my DVD/Blu Ray collection, but before doing so, I looked up what platforms they were available to stream/buy from. Out of just over 200 discs, Apple won with 122 available with Prime on 114.

Never heard that before, but I like it 👍

I learnt to drive in another era (early 90s) and I have to agree that lane usage and signalling on roundabouts appears to be completely random.

In the example given, I was taught you should be in the left hand lane and signal left for the first exit. For all other exits, you should be in the right hand lane and signal right UNTIL you’ve passed the exit before you want to turn. You should then signal left and change lanes to take the exit.

Just checked the Highway Code and section 186 does suggest this is still the “right” way to do this, but I think it’s easier said than done (e.g. 4 exits and 3 approach lanes. I would go for the middle lane for the second exit (straight on) and I probably wouldn’t signal).

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/changes-and-answers/-highway-code-for-roundabouts

A big thank you to everyone working on wefwef. The rate of development is so impressive and much appreciated 👏