I’ll say it again: I want to buy one of these. They’re awesome (from what I’ve seen). It’d be my Linux laptop. But I’m a Mac guy and after the novelty wore off, it’d go unused. Still, if Apple fucks up their OS enough, this will be my escape hatch.
You might want to experiment with Ubuntu some day. It can be installed to a Mac if you have one lying around, and the default Ubuntu experience is surprisingly Mac-like.
Unfortunately they don’t have a version with Coreboot
i hope we get an update soon. if we get coreboot AND a removal of intel ME or amd PSP theres nothing i can think of holding it back.
iirc there was a different thread about intel me where someone mentioned it being baked into the silicon
It is, but as far as I understand, you can disable some of it depending on your coreboot/libreboot setup.
Coreboot is open source, but when you build the rom for your machine, you have to pack in closed source blobs for Intel me, and any other proprietary parts of the chip.
I’m not up to date on current happenings with libreboot, but the goal there was to get it working 100% open source, without closed source blobs.
LibreBoot doesn’t have that goal anymore, it now strives to be as blobless as possible. GNUBoot (edit: or CanoeBoot) is what LibreBoot used to be
I would absolutely have got one this year, but they don’t sell to Finland. I probably don’t need a new laptop for a good while, but I still hope these will keep building up and getting more common.
@redd Fedora 39 here on an Intel FW13. It’s my first Linux-only hardware and I only run Windoze (in a Boxes VM) for one application.
No regrets.
Minor niggles only, one of them probably caused by me being hasty. It has never failed to do my usual (edit/compile/debug)
I never got VMware networking right (possibly due to lack of experience with VMware), so I stick with Boxes.
And I installed Win10 on a spare SSD, just to set up the fingerprint sensor. I’ve not booted that SSD since then.
Nice, Ubuntu LTS (22.04) seems to fully work out of the box. Although I’d have expected more distros to work like that (even the officially-supported Fedora needs some extra steps to get everything running and its stability is described as “some risk”).
Not yet fully since fingerprint is not supported in all variants.
Also with the “stability” topic. This can mean everthing from hibernation issues to power management.
I think Framework knows exactly why they don’t offer preinstalled Linux yet.
Put Ubuntu on mine and it worked flawlessly!
I keep getting issues. When waking from sleep the screen flickers white and needs a restart.
GNOME extensions seem to cause issues when trying to log in and freezes indefinitely or loops back to the login screen. This problem is so intermittent. It sometimes takes me 3 restarts until I’m able to log in without freezing. Other times, it logs in but all extensions are disabled.
It’s been a big headache so far for me.
I did get occasional flickering with Wayland but switched to X11 and have been fine since. Did not get any of that other stuff you mentioned! Have several GNOME extensions enabled too.
What about it
