 Today I'm here to talk about this. This is the K-Focus. So what's the K-Focus? It very much is a KD computer. Why is that? Well K-Focus stands for Kubuntu Focus and it's actually made in partnership with Kubuntu and Kubuntu is part of KD. So that's why I'm saying this is very much a KD machine. It uses the Kubuntu logo and everything. Now the fact that they use Kubuntu very much matters because this actually ships only with Kubuntu and this is a big change compared to other competitors that offer a variety of distributions with Linux on it. So a variety of Linux distributions. So why do they do that? Well when you're a hardware maker doing things for Linux you have the responsibility to make sure that your software actually works on your machine. So you do that by actually testing the distribution and making sure that even if you have I don't know multi monitors with different resolutions attached it still works nicely. Now if you offer like five different distributions then you necessarily are going to have less time to actually dedicate to each of them whereas shipping Kubuntu only actually gives K-Focus enough time in theory to make sure everything works nicely and this actually shows in various ways. Firstly in their testing they actually found a couple of bugs in Kubuntu regarding multi monitors and they actually went ahead reported the bugs and actually found affix for two of them one of which has been upstreamed meaning that now all Kubuntu installations and not just this one will actually benefit from that. So by focusing on something that exists and not doing their own desktop like system 76 an example might want to do they can actually make sure that the software is better for everyone and not just them. Not only that but they're also very open to actually offering bounties to actually fix the bugs that raise up when you use this kind of machines that are correlated to KD. So if you're a KD developer like me who doesn't actually who isn't actually employed by KD or any other company the fact that there are bounties that they offer to fix some KD bugs that you can encounter using their machines is something very nice to do and that actually helps the KD community grow. So it is a very interesting idea even though it's just a machine that maybe not everybody will buy just the fact that we have it and that some people can focus on it make sure that the whole community the whole KD community can grow from it. Now this is clearly intended for professionals and they do offer a lot as an example well they shipped really fast like I talked to them one day the day after it was already shipped and I got the I got the machine next Monday and it was Friday and as soon as it arrived that actually sent me an automatic email offering a 30 minute walkthrough of all the features that they actually offer to all customers which is very important and in general they pride themselves a lot in their customer support so I'm surely going to test that out. I'm going to make some stupid questions to check if they can answer I don't know. They also want to make sure that everything works out of the box and they even have guides on stuff like blender that points to some material because they don't want to reinvent the wheel but they make sure that for all use cases that you want to use this machine with they actually have guides that they link to to actually use like if you want to use blender they link to the famous donut blender video just to make an example. Finally they also have customized kumu into a bit which is super nice because you know KD is really meant to be customized and they did some interesting modifications one that is particularly important they actually ship with a lot of key focus apps that help you use this machine and now I'm going to go through them let's also give a look to the build quality I mean what ports or what hardware are we actually getting so now we'll go through hardware and software so I mean let's get started okay let's start off with the ports on the front we have a usb-c that works as a thunderbolt 3 we have a usb-a version 3.2 we've got two in one audio phones and mic and we've got the power button on the side we have a sd xe memory card and on the back the power input a mini display port 1.4 a rj45 gbe 2 usb-a 3.2 still and another usb-c that is still thunderbolt 3 and to finish it off we have an hdmi 2.0b inside instead we have a intel core i5 version 1135 g7 it has 2.4 ghz and gets to 4.2 with turbo it has four cords so eight threads it has a integrated intel iris xe graphics j7 g7 i don't know the rum is dual channel ddr4 it is up to 64 gigabytes i have here one terabyte of storage and the chassis is an intel nook panther canyon i went through the specs rather quickly because you know you can check those on the website what you cannot check on the website is how the software is actually implemented so let's switch to that part okay third part of this video the software that comes out of the box we get immediately a welcome to the kubuntu focus dialogue which does a lot of stuff it installs some extra software super useful it is like obs inkscape blender all this stuff that you would actually need there's also a dialogue to actually set up password manager which i've actually used kipas i've created a database to actually check that it is working correctly you can connect via email to thunderbird also pretty useful you get that just out of the box so i will skip that for now then you get a couple of things that don't quite work immediately that is we get as an example dropbox cloud drive we don't immediately see the dialogue because it has to be installed and this actually takes a few seconds to for the installed dialogue to actually pop up i think this is a bug it is slightly confusing because it says i've opened up dropbox but it hasn't but yeah after a few seconds you actually get the dialogue where you actually insert the password and it installs dropbox and works out of the box which is pretty nice we also get in sync to cloud drives which has kind of the same issues you only see it after a couple of seconds but it's reasonable i think it's not that big of an issue because just after the first time you just have to wait for 10 seconds and you understand what's going on it also has jetprints as an IDE out of the box again and it asks you if you want to set it up and again it opens up there just a few seconds so yeah you see now that we have in sync and dropbox installing and then we've got jetprints on the right so everything is being set up lastly we can actually change davator which is a nice finishing touch of this installer i am going to actually change to flowers because i mean flowers why not thank you dropbox now actually this drink is just fine and that was actually everything now it says asks to actually see all the curated apps which we will go through but first i actually want to talk about some of like the major change to the actual kdplasma desktop these that you're seeing now are all the apps that are actually curated by cuban to focus there a lot as you can see we'll go through them this is the quick help widget which actually tells you as an example the shortcut to show the desktop meta d has now is doing there's also alt tap to switch between windows we probably know about this but with the arrows we can actually get a lot of shortcuts and i think this is incredibly useful you can actually see everything and you can open the image in when view to actually see it full resolution then there is console shortcuts and to use the console there's also command line instruction like a list of all the command line comments that you might want to use and then there's vim and this is the only operating system that i know of that actually tells you how to exit vim out of the box this is a widget which means you can move it around just like any widget or remove it if you don't like it i think it is a very nice touch it actually helps use the desktop out of the box let's get into the created apps so we've got all of this the first one is anaconda gpu we don't actually have a dedicated gpu on this machine so this one doesn't do anything but starting off with the second one it's the c compiler versus switcher which is extremely useful as an example to compile kd plasma i often have to change my c++ compiler version because it doesn't support some package so this actually having a tool that does that out of the box is pretty useful now this is just an example so i'm going to cancel the installation as a small bug when you cancel it says it has failed it hasn't failed i cancelled it that's different but it's such a small bug i don't think that it really matters then there's the extra software installer which is what i was also in the first setup and that i've already in run so there's nothing extra to install anymore there's the fun control on other on the laptops you can actually control the fans in this dialogue in here since it's the intel nook based on the intel nook it actually tells you that there are fun controls in the bios and it actually tells you how to open up the bios here we've got a system repair so we have the the check for the hardware signature as you can see now it keeps really configuring the hardware in this case because it's done of course when they send me this and we also get this kernel cleaner packages to keep this one that you're seeing right now sorry then there's this focus tool which is pretty interesting it's basically a set of guides on how to set up the everything really as an example i'm going to pick the desktop theme and in this case it tells me how to change the things what selection on the themes i have and how to actually reset to the default panel all of these are pretty useful especially how to reset the panel which in kdplasma out of the box is not super simple there's a variety of variety of them backups are pretty important here you have back in time out of the box which is super useful i'm going to go through that later on there's the kernel cleaner which we've actually seen in the system repair tool the keyboard color chooser in this case i don't have a keyboard so it's not relevant here i can actually select a cpu power profile it's a bit like when you open up the power outlet in kdplasma but this you actually have more information it tells you the g-guards and stuff so more useful there's this video sync utility that again is for the laptop models with the nvidia gpu what is meant to do it it prevents video thuring across all attached display sorry and it actually has its own page that explains everything there's actually pages to explain everything for all curated apps and also you've seen how many guides there are and there's also guides on how to use blender inkscape that actually refer to some other i have talked about this other guides like the donut one which is super useful so there's a lot of documentation and then there's this presentation that is actually to welcome you and tell you how the machine work machine works out of the box so it walks you through what you should do when you actually get the machine like as an example run the first run dialogue that we've seen at the start of this segment yes you see it now all the stuff it goes through it also comes i can confirm it with just the key and the microfiber cloth so that's actually really nice to glue the design we've seen it in the previous segment so we know it's good you can also purchase a ubiki separately but i haven't one there's also here the information on how to contact the support and how to encrypt the system both of the both of these information are actually pretty important then there's also a walkthrough to all of the focus tools but again i've showed i've shown them to you so they also do some adjusting for suspend and resume if you're using a nvidia gpu which again is not the case but i'm sure that if you want to buy a computer with nvidia from kfocus then that's gonna that's gonna be on your mind i mean usually nvidia and kd don't go so well together in this case the amount of support is significantly higher compared to other nvidia computers that do not come with linux out of the box so i haven't got one with nvidia to test but i do see that in the documentation there is some important care in that regard then there is actually back in time for the backups as i've said and that's actually pretty important i think i am actually known to be the kind of person that always forgets to boot like always accidentally puts a space between the name of the folder i want to delete and slash when i'm doing rm that has happened to me multiple times so actually backing up even if it's on the same hard disk that's of course not as good as a backup if it was in an external disk but still in the same disk you can make sure that you don't have any data loss loss in this case we've got out of the box that will to make a backup every hour and of course like it keeps all of the backups of all the past hours for the first day and then one every day for the past week one every week for the past month this kind of thing aiogen as i did here also do a snapshot manually so i think this is particularly important to actually have out of the box so there's also a section of these lights called details for reviewers which i guess is targeted at me and it tells you how to test tpu and gpu performance it's the kind of advice you can easily guess so i mean turn on the cpu at high level and also use geek bank this kind of thing so it is not a section called how to cheat in and don't worry what i'm going to do now is actually use the machine for my all of my day-to-day activities which are very much power intensive as an example i'm doing obs recording and need to do that there's also editing in kd and live kd development which involves a lot of compiling i'm going to test the speed of compiling too then i'm going to reduce the podcast with audacity i'm also going to be drawing i actually both a nice drawing tablet just for that so i'm actually going to test this computer this little guy or girl in all day-to-day activities that i normally do and compare it to the other computers that are good at performance to see how it performs so this video was a quicker introduction compared to like a full review which is because tomorrow i will be on a flight to kd academy which is the conference at kde where it lasts a week and there's a lot of discussing on how to drive the community forward so obviously i won't be able to fly with barcelona with my monitor and everything so i'd love to leave this one here but when i come back i will actually be able to do a full review i just really wanted to start talking about this device before getting to academy by the way about academy if you're interested i will try to make uh if i manage to daily videos but what's happening if there's anything interesting about kd that is being discussed so that you're up to date i will also try to have that in the podcast i don't know if i left the time because obviously my focus there will be kd but i will try and as soon as i get back there's the full review of this thingy and there's also a full review of another computer which is a laptop coming up so stay tuned and see you either monday or sunday with another video