Framework:
- doesn’t offer Linux preinstalled
- doesn’t ship fully assembled laptops without Windows (only the “DIY” edition you must assemble yourself can ship without Windows)
- just now (April 2022, over two years late) finally put up a Linux compatibility page which currently describes Ubuntu 21.10 as “🤔 medium difficulty”
- doesn’t have a free software BIOS or EC firmware
Meanwhile companies like Purism, System76, and Starlabs are shipping modern laptops with various distros preinstalled, never shipping windows, shipping coreboot, and (in the case of the first two, at least, and especially the first) funding the development of free software.
ok? but their laptops are entirely repairable and upgradable down to the CPU. The other 3 just repackage blank laptops with their name and bios on it and call it a day.
There is no free lunch :/
Framework wasn’t founded to push free software, but rather repairable hardware. I don’t know what you were expecting.
Plus if you were following them, you would know they had linux info from the beginning, it was just not put in a simple page like this yet.
(And why is it two years late)?
It’s listed as “medium difficulty” due to newer hardware in the laptop not being fully compatible with the kernel shipped in that old version of Ubuntu. I believe 22.04 is compatible out of the box.
I had to use a Debian sid nightly installer to set up Debian on my laptop, no big deal for me but for someone new to Linux I can see why that might be off-putting.
Amazeballs.
Nice!
That’s cool. I want to see they opening even more stuff.
Once again, a laptop which follows very good design principles but very high in price.
It’s easier to start at this price point. If it is successful, you will likely see cheaper versions. Nothing like what we have now however, as making cheap throwaway laptops is against their mission.
