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Framework machines are great, and certainly upgradeable, but $300 they are most certainly not.
Framework machines are great, and certainly upgradeable, but $300 they are most certainly not.
Yeah, same experience on Wayland + GNOME for me. I want it to work, but stuff just breaks too often for me to accept at this point. How much of that is Wayland and how much of it is other things failing to work properly with it is kind of immaterial. Regardless, I’ll happily jump ship when it’s more baked, but now isn’t that time.
The important bit not mentioned here is that FW machines are both user serviceable and user upgradable. No need to eat the cost or create the waste of replacing a perfectly good chassis and display, and then sell off the replaced mainboard on the market.
As someone with an SP8 running Garuda, I would really recommend going with an Android tablet l with a keyboard ike a Lenovo P11 rather than a Linux device for your use case. The truth is that x86 devices just aren’t that great when it comes to power management, Linux is hit and miss when it comes to suspend functionality, and the stylus / handwriting implementation is typically pretty poor. You can make it work, but you’ll be compromising a lot of functionally.
Gotcha- thank you! Glad to hear they’ve figured it out, I love what FW is doing and would love to get back to them. Appreciate the update! !)
Did they finally fix the phantom drain from the expansion cards during sleep? I had one of the original batch and wound up trading it in because I couldn’t actually use it effectively untethered.
After the Lenovo buyout of IBM’s hardware line, they flexed on the “Pad” branding to try to leverage the well-known and well-respected ThinkPad brand they got in the acquisition. I can’t say much for their other laptops (they’re fine), but I will admit to having been pleasantly surprised at how much they haven’t enshittified the ThinkPad line.
Niche, I know, but I’m waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it’s 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I’m running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.