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Is anyone here using Framework with GNU/Linux and not with a big list of caveats? That means suspend working, battery life above 6 hours, palm rejection working, wifi working, fractional scaling working?

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Ubuntu 24.10 - works just fine. I lose about 1% battery per hour while suspended. I’ve made no Os config changes. It just works like most Linux experiences I’ve had the last few years with not bleeding edge hardware.

Battery life while using is super variable by task, so it’s hard to give a data point. The battery life is _fine_ for me, but nowhere near an M series MacBook in my experience

Well, M Series is the best experience that there is. What is important is how much use time you get. If you get 8 hours, you can work just fine. 12 would be ideal. More than that yes, but since I charge at night is not a must. So the question is how much time do you get.

All except fractional scaling worked for me out of the box with Mint. Fractional scaling isn't working just for Linux reasons rather than a Framework limitation (in my case, I'm using Regolith, and wayland is still experimental and not default).

For fractional scaling on my Fedora setup under Gnome, I just load up the Tweaks tool, click on Fonts, and adjust the Scaling Factor on the bottom. This seams to work about as good as fractional scaling would (at least for me). I used to need to also set the default scaling factor in Chrome / Firefox separately, but they seem to be picking it up correctly now too.

Cool to hear that Regolith is working on sway support! Currently, Im using a Gnome extension for similar tiling window support. But its really really buggy.

I loved the idea of Regolith, just not the idea of going back to X11.

Will need to keep an eye on progress.

I am. Running arch with sway. Im on an older intel one, everything just works.

Suspend works Fingerprint reader works Battery life when not running heavy workloads is around 13 hours

> Fingerprint reader works

That blew me away when I found that out. Fingerprint readers never work on Linux, and yet (with openSUSE Aeon) the fingerprint reader built into the Framework 16's power button works out of the box. Felt like fucking magic.

Yup. Framework 13 AMD with Fedora 41, gnome or sway. Works great.

Not Linux specific, but the thermal paste is pretty poor. Mine disintegrated in two years of heavy use. (13", Intel 12th gen)

Popping off the heat sink to apply a fresh dab is no big deal, but I didn't find out until the top-center keys (y, 6) began failing.

Replacing the keyboard is $50 and about a hundred tiny screws.

Framework 13, 11th Gen Intel, running Fedora 41. I've gone through many Fedora upgrades since buying this in 2021, my unit was I think the 3rd batch of the original laptops.

Everything generally has worked fine over the years, though I did have to replace a broken fan recently. Super easy to repair with a new fan/heatsink unit - cost me about 50$, 10 mins to install.

Trackpad has always been mediocre... workable, but not as good as leading brands. Fingerprint reader always worked well, and no issues with Wifi or Bluetooth. Battery life has always been crap, but I usually have it docked (which also works great with a Dell Thunderbolt unit).

Yep, archlinux with gnome 48-testing with experimental features enabled to allow VRR, as well as fractional scaling. I prefer using my 2.8K display at 150%. Appears to be working fine with everything I've used. I have had some issues with wifi cutting out intermittently, but I think that might be a misconfiguration of roaming on my APs kicking the laptop too eagerly.

power-profiles-daemon works well, I didn't like how much the battery drains overnight on the s2idle suspend mode, so I've set up a systemd unit to hibernate after 30 minutes of sleep.

Yes, I've had the Framework 13 AMD ryzen 7840u for about 1.5 years. First few months had a lot of "use this distro with this kernel" but after 1 or 2 linux kernel releases it's been good, on Arch Linux with Cinnamon Desktop on Xorg with 150% scaling.

It can be helpful to enable the "Game mode" in the bios to allocate more system memory to graphics, this can avoid some weird crashes triggered by hardware video decoding and such (probably more important for the first year or so, maybe not so much now).

Debian 12 / AMD -- love it, no problems at all. Just make sure you have the latest kernel from backports.

1000% recommend a framework laptop w/ linux

NixOS, with Cinnamon DE and all of that seems to work just fine. I am plugged in 99.9% of the time so can't comment on battery life but it doesn't seem to use much the hour or so when I do occasionally unplug.

I also don't use the fingerprint reader but that's supposed to be working too.

Battery life is much better recently, though I couldn't tell you why. The other day I streamed video for hours on end after starting with a full battery. That was an awesome feeling!

That really depends on which main board you're using.

The latest AMD board is not perfect for Linux (yet).

The oldest Intel board is basically perfect.

Are you using a supported distro?

See https://frame.work/linux for the distros we recommend for each generation.

No worse than all the same with my X1 Carbon or Vaio.

KDE+arch works perfectly out of the box

battery life above 6 hours

bwahahaha, get real.

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