The Tux are pretty much the same as this one from Eluktronics: https://www.eluktronics.com/THINN-15. Depending on where you are, this might turn out to be a bit easier to order.
And there is also the “Spanish” version: https://slimbook.es/en/kde-slimbook-amd-en
Hi pebcak,
I just got the Lenovo Thinkpad T14 with a Ryzen Pro 5 4650U the other day. I installed Endeavour OS with Gnome had some issues with it not waking up from suspension. I then erased the disk and installed Endeavour with KDE as DE. Works absolutely smoothly and crazy fast.
I could not be happier.
Good luck with your purchase, enjoy it,
Niels
Thanks @matthias42 for the links. They look really interesting and comparable to the Tuxedo machine. There seems to be no lack of good alternatives. And the more options, the more difficult to make choices. At least for me.
You’ll definitely not like KDE out of the box! 
Thanks NielsKiel for your post and sharing your experience! Your happiness shines through the post and made me happy also. And thanks for the well-wishing!
Believe it or not (it is still unbelievable to me), I am on EOS-KDE right now. And man, all these options just make my head spin like crazy 
Just watched this video review:
The battery life is impressive. I’m interested in getting one, but not sure about Arch Linux support, as I can’t find the model in Arch Wiki.
I can’t give you a 110% promise but if it works with any modern Linux distro then Arch is 99% certain to work.
Would recomm3nd do buy it in a store and use usb to try lol
I have an ideapad flex 5 (4500U) with EnOS/Cinnamon and it works well on kernel 5.7.12+ with tlp disabled and the BIOS firmware updated. Early 5.8 kernels broke the touchscreen. The backlight has to be set every cold boot, but it is remembered from suspend. These things will improve. This is working so much better than trying to run linux on a baytrail device in 2015. FWIW, this laptop compiles a kernel almost twice as fast as a skylake desktop (i5-6400.)
Thanks for posting and sharing your experience!
I’ve just bought my new laptop: Yoga Slim 7 Ryzen 4800u / 16GB-4266 RAM / 512GB PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD
I haven’t installed Linux yet. Need to do some preparations.
Wow, congrats (read: I am jealous of you!! 
).
Please do share your thoughts and experiences. I would appreciate it greatly since I have been looking at this model as well as a possible candidate for purchase.
Sure. Once I install Linux (Manjaro KDE most likely 
), I’ll share my experience and answer Linux related questions here.
Manjaro can be installed in 5 minutes. Endeavour OS Plasma took me 1 hour or something last time when I tried. I hope EOS can have a Plasma offline version too.
As far as I know, Ubuntu 20.04 runs with secure boot on all systems, not just Lenovos. I have it set up that way on the Acer at my office. That despite the fact that, at least in my experience, Acers have to be wrestled with more to get linux on them, unlike Lenovos where it’s easy-peasy.
Community spin, anyone? 
Exactly. To me computers are like cars now. Except for certain kinds of development work, there’s no practical reason to buy a brand new one unless you’re someone who just has to have the shiniest new thing. I enjoy getting as much life as I can out of my machines, all of which I got refurbished in the first place.
One thing you left out - some of us like to build them! You know - boys and their toys… 
The trick then is to spec them for long life (to me anything exceeding 5 years and still happily usable is long life - as I rarely turn them off!)