I’ve never used Tuxedo OS. Aside from it being built for a specific PC/laptop manufacturer, I’m just tired of anything Ubuntu-related. Interesting move here to Debian Testing.
I wonder that Ubuntu has stepped a little too far down the opinionated path in terms of what’s provided/enforced by the distro, for downstream distros.
Debian provides a more customisable base system.
Loosely, like the difference between Arch and Manjaro.
I think people are loosing faith in Canonical. But I never had it in them so what would I know.
Canonical was a go-to for a period of time in my younger distro hopping career. Now I don’t even care to see what they’re doing. Some of the spin-offs have been pretty successful like (Mint Linux). But even having Debian by their side along with Ubuntu didn’t guarantee them success. Just my opinion. . . Mint by itself (with mostly Debian) is probably how it stands today. . . .
Rich 
It certainly has, but I believe that’s not entirely the main reason. It’s just a hunch, I admit, but it seems more like Tuxedo wants to offer a more up-to-date experience compared to Ubuntu LTS. Basing off Debian Testing is kind of like basing on a rolling release, more or less. How good is Debian Testing compared to Ubuntu? I don’t know. We will live and see.
If I am not mistaken, when it comes to security fixes, the Stable branch is where Debian puts most of its effort into.
When a vulnerability is discovered in a package the Debian security team prepares a fix and backport the security patch to the version already in Stable rather than updating the whole package to the newest upstream version.The patched package is published through the Stable security repository.
Testing has no dedicated security team, if I have understood things correctly, providing immediate patches for every package. So in practice it may actually lag behind the Stable in receiving security fixes.
This will probably sound silly, but I stayed with them for a long time due to “sentimental” reasons. And not what you may be thinking. The sentimentality I refer to is the fact that they came out the same month my wife and I got married, October of 2004.
I wonder when will Mint finally take the plunge and ditch Ubunutu? Time to make LMDE the primary and maybe, just maybe, have a Linux Mint Ubuntu base?
Though one has to be thankfull to Ubuntu for being directly/indirectly responsible for Cinnamon desktop environment. Cinnamon is a good desktop environment. If I have to abandon KDE my first choice would be Cinnamon.
The same goes for me. Although I must say I also find Cosmic an interesting desktop environment, even if it’s still “immature,” I’m sure it will mature. Right now, Cinnamon would be my second choice after KDE.
Returning to Tuxedo, I’m happy with this choice. I can’t stand Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions. It’s like sitting on nettles for me. I prefer Debian, or Debian-based distributions.
Ubuntu deserves credit for having made Linux more accessible to the general public in the past, but its current management doesn’t make it particularly appealing to me.
Great news. I was considering buying one of their laptops anyway, but I was not happy with the Ubuntu base. Debian Testing is a much better fit for TuxedoOS.