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Framework and System76 are both doing great work. Glad they are able to make their businesses thrive, pay their employees and actually deliver a new age of “Lin

Framework and System76 are both doing great work. Glad they are able to make their businesses thrive, pay their employees and actually deliver a new age of “Linux on the laptop“. Still looking forward to buying a Framework to put next to my System76

mhuffman 2y ago
I have none of their hardware, but PopOS is, imho, the low-key best distro out there. It is the only one I have used that "just works" on older macbooks (9+ years old).
dwb 2y ago
Is a six out of ten laptop “great work”? What they’re doing is very difficult, no doubt, and I’m glad they’re attempting it, but it sounds like it amounts to quite an irritating machine right now. Certainly no way I’d consider it with a review like that.
- throwawaymaths 2y ago
  Framework 15 with Linux, very few problems[0]. (Review is 16 with windows). [0] the USB multimonitor used to suck but I think a popOS revision fixed that, and the internal microphone makes unusably bad audio.
  - mhitza 2y ago
    What framework 15, there's only the 13 inch and 16 inch model, no?
    - throwawaymaths 2y ago
      13 inch, sorry posting from phone
- lolinder 2y ago
  I'm pretty happy with the 13-inch model. It sounds like the 16-inch has problems that I'm not seeing on mine. My only complaints are ones that don't matter too much for me: battery life isn't great (5-6 hours) but I rarely need it to be, and it does get hot when playing games (but I usually do that on my PC).
- caustic-view 2y ago
  Apropos of the implication that the score matters: the reviewer is a Windows user
cassepipe 2y ago
Too bad they are not uniting forces now. I own a 12th gen framework and even though Linux works well on it, it won't save you from the occasional tinkering : How do I configure firefox to have it work well with the GPU ? Should I change the power-management software for something better ? Etc. Linux support is ok but it's not first class as I thought it would be. System76 clients seems to have better tuned software but the hardware seems less good. I wouldn't know. If there was a premium option for Framework with PopOS + System76 support I would have paid for it, and I suspect I wouldn't be the only one.

mhuffman 2y ago

I have none of their hardware, but PopOS is, imho, the low-key best distro out there. It is the only one I have used that "just works" on older macbooks (9+ years old).

dwb 2y ago

Is a six out of ten laptop “great work”? What they’re doing is very difficult, no doubt, and I’m glad they’re attempting it, but it sounds like it amounts to quite an irritating machine right now. Certainly no way I’d consider it with a review like that.

throwawaymaths 2y ago
Framework 15 with Linux, very few problems[0]. (Review is 16 with windows). [0] the USB multimonitor used to suck but I think a popOS revision fixed that, and the internal microphone makes unusably bad audio.
- mhitza 2y ago
  What framework 15, there's only the 13 inch and 16 inch model, no?
  - throwawaymaths 2y ago
    13 inch, sorry posting from phone
lolinder 2y ago
I'm pretty happy with the 13-inch model. It sounds like the 16-inch has problems that I'm not seeing on mine. My only complaints are ones that don't matter too much for me: battery life isn't great (5-6 hours) but I rarely need it to be, and it does get hot when playing games (but I usually do that on my PC).
caustic-view 2y ago
Apropos of the implication that the score matters: the reviewer is a Windows user

cassepipe 2y ago

Too bad they are not uniting forces now. I own a 12th gen framework and even though Linux works well on it, it won't save you from the occasional tinkering : How do I configure firefox to have it work well with the GPU ? Should I change the power-management software for something better ? Etc. Linux support is ok but it's not first class as I thought it would be. System76 clients seems to have better tuned software but the hardware seems less good. I wouldn't know. If there was a premium option for Framework with PopOS + System76 support I would have paid for it, and I suspect I wouldn't be the only one.