I've tried a number of open / hardened laptop brands over the years like Purism and System76, but I dare say that frame.work is my favorite thus far.
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Unfortunately they don’t provide support to countries they don’t ship to.
So here’s hoping one day I’m lucky enough to live somewhere they ship to
I’ve been intrigued by their approach for some time. But this is the first independent endorsement of their quality. Appreciate the share. Cheers.
Why is it your favorite?
Framework is really nice!
I bought the 13" diy model for my wife. She is very happy with its performance and battery life.
And I'm very happy with its repairability in the future 😉
This experiment should be of interest to you:
What’s it like having all the peripheral dongle things going over usb 3? Seemed like a headache for some things I take for granted to just work these days
Not sure what you mean; I have both USB-C and USB-A ports.
Been a bit since I looked into it, but I was thinking of these expansion ports which all go to usbc instead of being like, directly connected to a motherboard (I assume, not actually sure if that’s right): https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards
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Running Arch on the latest 13" AMD. Had some problems before the latest BIOS update, but since then, it's been super smooth. Looking forward to better fan control.
Good to hear! I’m making the jump with it.
No custom distro to support. 🧠
You light want to considder getting the AMD version which supports coreboot.
Did you try Insurgo?
https://insurgo.ca/produit/qubesos-certified-privacybeast_x230-reasonably-secured-laptop/
I have great exp with their support. Been using it as second laptop 4.5 years. But of course keeping Qubes OS etc working is pain (updating drivers, etc)