I installed kubuntu 24.04 yesterday and everything worked flawlessly. Today if it would boot the touchpad didn't. I reinstalled and it wouldn't boot at all. Just a little bit ago I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and everything seemed fine until I installed KDE. Now it won't boot.
Did you find a solution? Tomorrow I may install 22.04.
The only "solution" i found was goung back to kubuntu 22.04. Since then it works without Problems. I hope somebody finds the bug and fixes it sometime 🙈
I didn't seem to have problems with ubuntu 24.04. But i didn't try it very long maby i just didn't encounter them.
@Darkbug@Feeee23 My FW13 is happy on 22.04 LTS, and 24 is too recent for me. After getting bitten by (what looks like) an optimisation bug with gcc -O3 in Fedora 40, I'm back on Ubuntu, and holding back with 22.04 LTS for a while longer :-)
I discovered today that one of the touchpad connections on the midplate is faulty. This morning the touchpad completely stopped working no matter the OS. I ended up moving the touchpad and I'm back in business. I'm currently on Ubuntu 22.04 and it seems to be stable. Hopefully FW will send me a replacement midplate.
If you don't want to rma it, it might be best to just install the ssd in the secondary slot and deal tith the screw if you ever need a second ssd. If you know someone who likes to tinker with electronics, ask them to help you remove it
I got it out by pulling it really hard, it looks like it may have been cross threaded, once I got it out and the SSD inserted it just snapped back in. It holds so I’m good. Thanks for all the suggestions.
Although its marketed to both Linux and Windows users, you can really tell the attention and care that went into making this a Linux friendly machine.
My only wish is that their keyboards didn't have the Windows logo for the Super key. Because of that (and partially because I like a Colemak layout better), I ended up going with the blank keycaps.
I went way overboard speccing mine so thenAussie tax was a big hit. Including the RAM & SSDs I sourced separately, over $5K 😭
I find the FW13 is reasonable comparable to similar 13in laptops, but the FW16 is pricier than comparable 16in laptops. Windows ones that is. As I've specced it its a total bargain compared to a 16in Macbook.
That said, I was willing to eat the price difference for the modularity, the potential for future upgrades & to back Framework's mission.
Also yes, I'm also desperately waiting for the release of an oculink module.
While this new display certainly seems better (in terms of being able to use 2x scaling instead of my current 1.25x), I'd honestly prefer to have a cheaper option that's just 1920x1280, so I don't have to use scaling at all. I don't care that much how "crisp" text looks.
It's just a standard eDP connector. Technically as long as you can find a screen with the same physical dimensions and that uses the same number of eDP lanes or less, you can just drop it in. I have quite a few ThinkPad laptops I have done that with. The screens in them are not an option Lenovo ever offered for those laptops.
I see. In that case a 1920x1200 display with an adjusted frame might be enough? The top and bottom would just need to be slightly thicker to bridge the gap of the missing 80 vertical pixels? Just a thought, not important at all :)
I'm very interested in Framework as a company / device-maker. I was just custom configuring a laptop on their site yesterday. Not because I'll buy one (I'm a Mac guy), but because I really want them to succeed in huge ways and I'm curious.
I don't know enough about this new chip from Intel, so I'll wait for product reviews to tell me what the marketing material won't.
I'm currently looking for a 13'' computer (or a small 14''), I'd love to support Framework as they are exactly what I'm looking to support... But, they still don't ship to my country and I don't want to spend so much for a laptop (and I don't need very modern features on a personal machine).
This means I'll end up buying a used ThinkPad to serve my needs for the next 4/5 years. Though, If they did ship to my country I would be spamming my employee everyday to buy them.
It should be distro agnostic, yes. It's a bios replacement so once it hands off to the OS it should be chill
The reason why many people like coreboot is ownership over your system. The codes freely available to you, what it does is known, and this it's harder to backdoor.
As for functionality, by my understanding, this allows for updates way past what manufacturers are willing to support. Making older hardware much more secure.
Other than support for older systems and peace of mind there's not anything I'd know myself. It may be able to allow features that the bios doesn't allow but the hardware supports as well but I don't have any examples
I'll admit, I'm a paranoid man, so peace of mind and ownership over my system is the main allure. Also, I hate branding, and love to remove it where possible. Coreboot allows this
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