Was browsing other laptops for daily driving linux as a whole, and stumbled onto the framework 16. Anyone got any insight on the laptop
Framework doesn’t officially support arch, I think they support only Fedora officially now? There’s community support though https://frame.work/linux It should work pretty much no issues
Their forms are probably going to be the better place to ask, though i did find this on the arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop_16
EOS is largely just arch with a slightly different choice of system defaults, and some bonus scripting for managing updates and the like.
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Eh, if it has official support for any linux distro at all, then it’s a fairly safe bet that you will be able to use it on just about any distro happily.
Since most pcs don’t actually support any linux distros officially in the first place, and support is almost entirely a matter of drivers, which are handled by the kernel, which is used by all distros and therefore one of the few things that are common between most distros.
So broadly speaking, any hardware that supports any linux distro will work well on most other linux distros too, and the only reason why something might say work on fedora and not ubuntu would be that fedora’s kernel version might sometimes be newer than ubuntu’s and some of the hardware would require that newer kernel version.
Which is an issue arch and arch based distros will not suffer from because they tend to have the latest kernel available and even the default choice.
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A little search found this on Framework’s site: https://frame.work/linux
Sweet…I like the little bit I read on the Framework site. I’m going to do a bit more research on them to find out about reliability. I especially like the fact that they build their machines so users can fix/upgrade them if need be.
Too bad they only sell laptops. I also plan to purchase a new desktop in the near future, hopefully sometime next year.
Thank you for asking about the company.
My coworker bought an AMD Framework 13 and has been enjoying it despite a bit of growing pains with Fedora (his first Linux distro). All of his issues have since been resolved with updates.
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