Fedora atomic or it's more streamlined cousin silverblue. They both have gnome and kde versions depending on your preference but as a base they work really well for a workstation
Got my email, batch 15! I plan on using it as a laptop and repairing/upgrading parts as needed! I know that sounds stupid, but seriously I am just excited to actually feel respected by a goddamn company!
Also gonna try and figure out this whole "VMs" thing, my current laptop with 8gb ddr3 doesn't seem to really be able to do it, but I'd like to be able to use them for distrotrying (not really "hopping," is it? Lol) and maybe have a windows one, with the watermark because I'm not paying, for the rare 15-60min per year I need windows.
As someone who has been there and done that a few times (Worked at Apple with the first touchpad, Blackbird, laptop, the transition to PowerPC, the Apple Newton, Jawbone headsets and speakers, Leap Frog educational toys, Palm Pre mobile phone, Maker stuff at Intel, and more… sorry for the humble brag), I am salivating at the possibilities for more open (or maybe just open) hardware, forward thinking and innovative, and hackable, like the good ol´ days perhaps.
Maybe our tech can become less black box (especially to the up-and-comers who learn javascript and how to comment out the stuff that doesn´t work) and more inspirational.
If there is a one word label to tag the difference, I will go with Woz over Jobs…
Honestly I had considered buying a framework but with that article… I think a thinkpad will do for the next 4 years at least Lenovo had figured out how to not get bankrupt.
I don’t think that will end well. Don’t start good things and drive it into a wall please :(
Can you be more specific about what happens when you reboot? Does it go to blank screen, a blinking cursor, or just shut itself off? Does the operating system start and just get stuck somewhere in the boot process, or does it not even get that far?
I think F12 is the BIOS key, if that helps. If it attempts to boot the operating system, you can press one of the arrow keys to see the boot log.
It shows the Framework logo for a couple of seconds (but no ubuntu or kubuntu logo), and then the screen just goes black, no cursor, nothing.
But the powerbutton glows.
If I press esc, nothing happens (Normally, I think it shows the output of the boot process)
I'm not sure what you mean with f12, and I haven't tried it, but I will probably tomorrow.
From the sounds of it, the OS might not be starting at all, which is a very strange thing to happen after installing a desktop environment. My best guess is that apt uninstalled something important. As other folks said Ubuntu 24.04 is pretty unstable at the moment, so you might have more luck with Fedora, or Ubuntu 22.04 or 23.10. One thing you could try is booting into your (K)ubuntu live medium and running sudo grub-install /dev/sda, to reinstall the bootloader, just in case something broke it.
Pressing F12 while the Framework logo is visible (but before the OS starts) opens the BIOS boot menu. I assumed incorrectly that that is what you were trying to do with Escape. Trying to boot that way might help elucidate why the OS won't start. You could also get into BIOS settings that way, or boot a USB drive.
Not much help as I use bazzite, and it’s worked (mostly) flawlessly on plasma 5 and now 6 (6 is amazing and so responsive). Could be something to do with the display session manager, atleast on regular Ubuntu and installing KDE afterwards. Do you happen to know the default on regular Ubuntu?
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