What exactly are you unhappy about? I'm thinking of getting one soon-ish and would love to hear which negative experiences I could expect to bump into.
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vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Using my framework laptop feels like a never ending struggle sometimes but I really like the idea of modular, repairable laptops so here I am.
cabbage@piefed.social 10 months ago
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Bring in some insight on your struggles! You using Arch on it?
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You caught me (btw).
I’ve also ran fedora which is an officially support OS.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I like Fedora but I need some AUR wine applications and shadowsocks to smooth things out in Mainland China (am expat). Fedora cannot offer all of these easily, I’m not too well trained in building packages (I know it’s simple lol)
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
AUR is super cool (when it’s not getting DDOSed).
Building packages from scratch isn’t that hard usually but it can be and AUR really does simplify that.
boatswain@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Another satisfied Framework user here, wondering what kind of struggles you’ve been facing; I haven’t had any problems at all.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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gaybriel_fr_br@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Would love to know, my friend purchased one and it’s still within the return window.
01011@monero.town 10 months ago
Details on said struggles?
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Have you used one of the Officially-supported distros to check if sleep works, like Fedora 42 or Bazzite?
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah I ran fedora for a while when I first got this since that’s one of the official distros but it seems like it would really just be a function of the kernel itself and the laptop firmware.
Going back to fedora does not enable
deepsleep by default and I’m way too afraid to manually switch it again after having to pull the battery 5 times already in pursuit of a solution.I’ve been told this just doesn’t/can’t work.
So basically unless someone can say “I experienced the same exact problem and here’s how I fixed it” I’m just too afraid to try again haha.
Framework advises not to pull the battery and they are not wrong in that advisement. It’s sketchy as hell.
When I enable
deepsleep it prevents me from even accessing bios, so I can’t do the firmware battery disconnect at that point.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
First three, and last one sound very Framework related, but I wonder about the others. I know hardware is often way too optimised for windows that Linux has to patch it in a way for Linux, such as your deep sleep issue. Hope it gets fixed.
highduc@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Also curious why it’s such a struggle. I want one too so I’d like to know if there are issues with them.
TehPers@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I’ve had only positive experiences with mine. Also curious about what issues you ran into.
noodles@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yeah, I’ve had one hardware glitch that support sent me a detailed video how to fix by resetting the mainboard within a few hours of writing them, fixed it within 10 minutes. Other than that any issues I’ve had are linux-funkiness, like odd sound profiles on the speakers that I could fix myself, and have been gradually taken care of through updates along the way.