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I just got a framework last week, and I was quite disappointed with the supposed “Linux support”. It’s absolutely not “out of the box support” as they claim on

• hansel_der 4y ago
  > I had to do a number of tweaks to get into a usable state using Fedora 35 might be worth the effort of testing other distros (i hear arch has the bleeding edge)
• Brian_K_White 4y ago
  I'm using xubuntu and the mainline kernel and the only thing I'd have to do special at all would be to make the fingerprint reader work. Everything else has just worked. The suspend thing I think has to do with the bios not linux. It's a bug but not a linux support bug, I think. I'm currently using a fairly old HP tb3 dock that was really only intended for use with a few laptops of theirs. I like it for it's form factor, and it does function, but there are a couple annoyances that have me looking for an update. The tb3 cord is removable but so special that it might as well be hardwired. The dock end has a big plug with both a usbc and barrel connectors in one big chonk. The usbc part is normal so you could replace that cable with another, but you'd lose power delivery. The video outs seem to be a bit marginal. They work but they seem to be easily disturbed, like they are right on the edge of not working. The screens lose sync and reconnect once in a while. Once in a while is not multiple times per day, but probably at least a once or twice most weeks, but also some multiple weeks with no glitch. My magnetic usbc adapter surely contributes. Somewhere between half the time and all the time, the external monitors do not wake when the laptop wakes from sleep, and by sleep I mean just the first level like just blanking the screens. I don't have any swap or hibernate configured. But all I have to do to restore both screens is just rock the magnetic usbc connector 90 degrees to break the connection, wait 2 seconds or so, and let it snap back, and both monitors come back on and the xubuntu xrandr tool automatically restores the profile that uses them positioned the way I had them. If I'm lucky, maybe even most of my ssh sessions survive the temporary loss of ethernet. oh-well-emoji haha I got the same model of dock for my gf and she has a lg gram and only one external minitor, and she's running windows, and her monitor loses connection all by itself even when not idle/blanked, sometimes multiple times in a day, sometimes a couple weeks with no problem. I have gone through a few different attempts at getting new higher quality cables and shorter runs etc. So I think the display flakiness is in the docks and not in the laptops or the OS's or the monitors. But it is suuuuch a sweet little unit, and it does work so 99% well. Everything else are these big ugly boxes that are big enough that they might as well just be mini pc's and skip the laptop. Or they are nice looking small but junk guts. HP Elite ZBook TB3 dock 1DT93AA#ABA