[plug] Framework13 laptop

[Paul Dean]

Hey Bill,

I can highly recommend the Framework laptops, I got and have had mine 
for nearly 2+yrs now, running Debian 11,12 and now 13.

Superb support for Linux, solid hardware, and completely modular, very 
easy to construct and then upgrade later doing the track.

UFEI/BIOS well supported, including secure boot.

We also just begun moving our staff at work onto the Framework and they 
are very happy with them(one lady, very picky, is raving about hers, 
said "She'll never use anything else, and told M$ to 'go shove it' and 
moved to Linux."

So 'nuff said, enjoy open sause(source) software and now hardware.

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Thanks

Paul Dean.

"Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."

On 2026-02-21 10:16, William Kenworthy via plug wrote:
> Hi, my MS surface pro4 has hit its EOL - increasingly chronic 
> overheating compiling gentoo so its replacement time!
> 
> I am looking at a Framework13 Laptop (mid-range amd cpu) - does anyone 
> have any experience with Framework hardware and can comment on its 
> longevity and warranty etc?
> 
> I can get a Dell or something similar at half the cost but I want to 
> keep the new one 10 years or so without the unexpected compatibility 
> issue that plagued the Surface - patching kernels for propriety 
> hardware ... etc. - took a few years before hardware support caught up 
> :(
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
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