I buy generally alot of things used/refurbished - also my beloved X1 carbon.
As a swiss I always found it difficult to find the right keyboard, especially with ultrabooks.
If framework would make it easy to buy another keyboard format I am all in (ready to pay the other keyboard incl small change fee). On the other hand if like all other manufacturers you are pretty much tied to one keyboard language(hard to change) then the chance the find the right model is so small that I wouldn’t care looking.
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#12I really want to get a Framework laptop, all their values seem very well aligned with what I want from a laptop maker, but until they offer a model with a larger display I'm stuck waiting. As a developer, I really need at least a 15" display, preferably 16" or 17".
Honestly, I thought the same thing, but I am an extremely happy Framework v2 owner, and I don't miss the extra real estate. I have multiple external monitors for when I am coding at home, and don't mind the small screen when I'm not at my workstation. It's so light and portable too, it's easy to pick up and move with one hand. I adore my Framework laptop. I've got Windows 11 running WSL2 on it, and for me it is the ultimate dev workstation.
I totally understand where you are coming from though, as I really was in the same boat. YMMV, of course.
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#13I am really tempted to get a Framework laptop. Has anyone real world stories about using it with Linux (specifically Fedora)? Thanks in advance.
Search around for user experiences w/r/t battery life on Framework. My sense from a little over a year ago was that they built a windows machine that runs Linux pretty well but the battery life is abysmal. May be totally fixed by now.
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#14A keyboard with full sized arrows, dedicated pgup/pgdown, 3 physical mouse buttons and a trackpoint, I'm begging you, please.
Yes. I'm looking forward to the "framework 2". What's the point of having four interchangeable ports when my daily driver laptop already has 3 type-A, two type-C, an SD and microSD reader, and HDMI-out all at the same time?
Give me the cool shit, Framework. Gimme a module that's actually a bluetooth mouse. Gimme a module that's just a horizontal stack of like six USB2 ports. Gimme an ethernet port and a serial port.
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#15I am really tempted to get a Framework laptop. Has anyone real world stories about using it with Linux (specifically Fedora)? Thanks in advance.
Can't really speak to Fedora but Ubuntu 22.04 works almost perfectly on the 12th Gen (there's a driver you have to blacklist to get the media keys to work).
Ubuntu 22.04 works flawlessly out of the box for me, assuming you've completed the setup guide provided by Framework.
Using it as my daily work computer.
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#16Framework making laptops less disposable fills me with joy. I hope someone is able to do the same with cellphones.
Fairphone is trying to, but their market is mainly limited to Europe.
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#17My Framework laptop suddenly stopped charging or booting. Hopefully it'll end up being one of these, if their support ever stops telling me to retry charging it for 24 hours.
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#18A keyboard with full sized arrows, dedicated pgup/pgdown, 3 physical mouse buttons and a trackpoint, I'm begging you, please.
I have no interest in a trackpoint at all but I do really want the other things. The keyboard being replaceable is great in theory but until they put some effort into making alternatives, it's not very useful.
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#19I am really tempted to get a Framework laptop. Has anyone real world stories about using it with Linux (specifically Fedora)? Thanks in advance.
I've only run linux on my framework laptop. I'm on a rolling release distro and there have been some issues with regressions that seem to get fixed pretty quickly. Early on I had some graphics issues (I don't remember specifics) that got resolved with a kernel update. I also got a bad RAM stick early on which took me a while to figure out. :-) Recently the intel graphics bug in 5.19.12 took me out of commission for part of a day until I downgraded my kernel. It's been fixed since.
Overall, coming from linux on older thinkpads I wasn't used to kernel regressions like that, but this is my first time using linux on brand new hardware, too.
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#20A keyboard with full sized arrows, dedicated pgup/pgdown, 3 physical mouse buttons and a trackpoint, I'm begging you, please.
Yes. I'm looking forward to the "framework 2". What's the point of having four interchangeable ports when my daily driver laptop already has 3 type-A, two type-C, an SD and microSD reader, and HDMI-out all at the same time? Give me the cool shit , Framework. Gimme a module that's actually a bluetooth mouse. Gimme a module that's just a horizontal stack of like six USB2 ports. Gimme an ethernet port and a serial port.
Introducing a whole new structure for modules would be a huge self-defeat for their reason for existing. I didn't get a framework laptop with the expectation they'd obsolete it in a couple years.