I own a Framework 13. It’s slightly overpriced but I would take it any day over a MacBook. It runs Linux perfectly fine with no driver issues and is in general pretty high quality.

I feel like my MacBook is a sacrifice too: trading great battery life for a godforsaken OS.

My only interests are in repairability, upgradability and ability run a Linux distro. If it meets those reqs, I'd then look at price and firmware openness. I've soldered on a GPU chip to my Thinkpad t480 and it was fairly easy. If I can do something similar with either of them I'd be interested.

I've had a framework for 3 years now and it just works.

Higher build quality than think pads and runs Linux perfectly.

This is coming from someone who had a franken 400/420t hybrid until 2019.

My framework 13 does exactly what I want. It is a small relatively light Laptop with great Linux support, very nice display and good selection of ports.

I wouldn't buy a MacBook for software reasons, the Framework takes many design elements from it though.

We got one, and we love it. My daughter dropped hers and bent the case. We ordered a new case (which, admittedly, was a significant percentage of the price of a new laptop) and had it repaired within an hour of delivery.

I bought it primarily for the 3:2 screen after getting a Surface Laptop, which was such a lemon that it spent more time in transit for service than in use before I got rid of it. Have since swapped out every component but the screen, antenna, and chassis; the old Intel mainboard, wifi, and audio card are now in the standalone Cooler Master case driving a projector as a media center and server.

My work provides a M1 MBP; it's fine, but I usually bring my Framework when I want to get actual work done on the move. The Framework works with my external display but suffers from screen flicker on the M1.[1]

1: https://www.benq.com/en-us/knowledge-center/knowledge/how-to...

I can't claim to love the Framework laptop, as I have not yet gotten to try one, but I would like to love it; the feeling is more aspirational than sacrificial.

It's a solid laptop. If I was running x86, it would be my daily. I use my framework for field work and it's great. 30 hour battery life idle on the 11th gen at min brightness (Windows)

I regret having a mac all the time.

For me getting a new laptop is coupled with getting a new job, and I never want to spend the first month on the job debugging drivers. Self-inflicted FUD has been the only thing keeping me in the mac ecosystem.

I miss the crappy laptop with Xubuntu that I had in university. If framework keeps it up I'll eventually move back.

battery-wise it's a sacrifice, but only because I run linux

wouldn't really be a problem if I were on windows

It's hard to find a decent laptop PC theses days. Dell firmware is crap. I have 2 HP in the family, both batteries died overnight, same for the spare batteries. Lenovo laptop wasn't nice either.

Si this time I bought a framework, I hope it will be better.