Super awesome! I was looking at this, but don’t want a new phone right now

I’m constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.

Another vote here for framework 13. Love mine.

I’ve had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.

I’m also running fedora 42, but it’s Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.

My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it’s something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I’m not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it’s dead when I need it, which sucks.

Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I’ve found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I’ve been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it’s been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).

And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I’ve only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷‍♂️ That’s a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven’t needed to 🤷‍♂️

But still I’d buy another in a heartbeat.

Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.

Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.

Highly recommend.

I’m on silverblue, well, bluefin, specifically.

So far so happy 🤷‍♂️

I’ve definitely pulled my hair out with docker too. Banged my head against the wall for a couple days before finally giving up.

I’m not ridiculously tech savvy, but I’ve tinkered with Linux since I was young, daily drive it on my laptop. I’m not afraid of the command line, and I’m smart enough to search for help and guides when I need it.

But something about docker just breaks my brain. Maybe I’m too old and there’s too much abstract thought required, I don’t know. But I can’t figure it out.

I was thinking more like using an immutable or atomic os instead, like bazzite or bluefin. At least then you get regular updates, and core functionality is safely protected.

Thanks! I’m actually settling into bluefin right now. It’s based on Fedora, but is closer to bazzite. Supposedly has great framework support, which is important I realized

Thanks for the recommendation! Nothing wrong with simple and standard. I won’t lie though, I fired up Fedora last night to play with, and I really liked what I saw 😅

I’m excited to go full Linux. It’s been a long time coming for me. Like I say, I tried to do it years ago. I recently did it for a year or more. I don’t remember switching back to Windows, it just kind of… Happened 🤷‍♂️

Exactly. I’d love to use jellyfin, but it’s just not feasible

I’m really thinking I might go Fedora. I haven’t spun any of these up yet, busy busy.

My new laptop is a framework 13, AMD version. Apparently bluefin, which is Fedora based, is super compatible with all the features of that laptop.

😅

Thanks for the recommendation, and the explanation!

Hmmm yeah that doesn’t sound amazing… Thanks for the heads up

Thanks! Lots of votes for bazzite. I’ve never tried it, but I plan to

Nice! Glad to hear it! I’ve heard mixed reviews on Manjaro

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve used xfce in the past, and at least back then, it definitely wasn’t my jam. I appreciate how lightweight it is for older machines though!

And yeah I’ve definitely learned a lot through these discussions. Snap vs flatpaks, and the benefits of Wayland.

I’m leaving the op as is though, a record of things I didn’t know before haha

Thanks! HDR isn’t important to me right now. Though I think I need to specify that I’ll be installing this on a framework laptop, and therefore, from what I’ve learned recently, Wayland is actually preferred because it enables some track pad gestures that x11 lacks somehow.

I’m definitely leaning towards bazzite, because people seem to think it’s not that bad even for general use, and it ticks a lot of boxes.

Though nixOS is on the table. I at least wanna try my hand at configuring it.

Thanks for the recommendation!

Yeah honestly, I set up a Windows SD card for dual booting, and I’ve used it maybe once. SteamOS is where it’s at for the steam deck. Premium.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’m excited to give these distros a try!