> expect some challenges if you’re going to run a different distro.
There are some battery life/suspend issues that seem to be rooted in the disabled intel ME. I'll have to track it down, but I recall purism trying to get a kernel patch upstream from their PureOS. It surfaced on Arch, but I haven't seen it on Qubes, which is their other first-class OS.
> trackpad keyboard etc. are great especially once you get used to them.
N.B., they only offer US qwerty. The keys have quite a bit of travel, which is fine for me. The thing that really still gives me some grief is the mini shift key. If you're a right-pinky shifter, you're going to need to stretch. If you miss, you've hit up-arrow and now you're typing on the wrong line.
The speakers are perhaps the worst I've ever heard. Doesn't bother me because I never use them, but on that note, bluetooth is a little tricky out of the box since pureos doesn't ship a driver. Not sure if another distro just works.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, it's really simple to take apart, upgrade, fix, etc. No torx, glue, or esoteric fasteners. I dumped 64gb ram in it for like $200 and it took about 3 minutes.
Don't recall hitting the battery life issues, at least in a long time. I do remember having to install some packages about battery management but it wasn't tricky. This is the one thing Framework really trails on for me.
> expect some challenges if you’re going to run a different distro.
There are some battery life/suspend issues that seem to be rooted in the disabled intel ME. I'll have to track it down, but I recall purism trying to get a kernel patch upstream from their PureOS. It surfaced on Arch, but I haven't seen it on Qubes, which is their other first-class OS.
> trackpad keyboard etc. are great especially once you get used to them.
N.B., they only offer US qwerty. The keys have quite a bit of travel, which is fine for me. The thing that really still gives me some grief is the mini shift key. If you're a right-pinky shifter, you're going to need to stretch. If you miss, you've hit up-arrow and now you're typing on the wrong line.
The speakers are perhaps the worst I've ever heard. Doesn't bother me because I never use them, but on that note, bluetooth is a little tricky out of the box since pureos doesn't ship a driver. Not sure if another distro just works.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, it's really simple to take apart, upgrade, fix, etc. No torx, glue, or esoteric fasteners. I dumped 64gb ram in it for like $200 and it took about 3 minutes.