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People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Have been keeping half an eye on framework laptops as a potential next daily driver as and when I'm ready for one.

Just wondering what people's experience of using them on linux has been, particularly nixos

I'm assuming all the drivers are in the kernel given the way the company is

Have been using a 2016 thinkpad for the past year or so and have had a decent experience with it, with the way lenovo have gone with their newer thinkpads it seems like framework is now the best for maintainability/upgradability

(not planning to upgrade in the immediate future as this machine is doing fine, but frameworks are a strong contender in my mind right now and I'm curious as to people's experience)

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Sleep kind of sucks on the original 11th gen hardware. They pushed out a bios update that broke S3 sleep, so now all you've got is the s2idle version, which the kernel is only OK at. Your laptop bag might heat up. S3 breaking isn't really their fault, Intel deprecated it. Still annoying though. I've heard the Chromebook version and other newer gens have better sleep support.

Other than that, it's great. NixOS runs just fine, even the fingerprint reader works, which has been rare for Linux

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I can live with that, my thinkpad won't sleep properly at the moment anyway (I've taken to just running systemctl hibernate before closing the lid, I should probably set that to the default behaviour instead of suspend at some point)

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you should enable suspend-then-hibernate instead. laptop suspends normally and if not woken in, say, an hour, the RTC hibernates it to disk.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't work, I've already spent ages trying to get this to work properly and have basically just given up at this point.

I don't mind waiting for it to recover from hibernation, I only hibernate it once or twice a day anyway

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

not to trample on your experiences, but you can make it work. it's true it's super cumbersome and involved though.

I've had/got it working on a T420s, T480s, T14, MBPr 2012, on debian, fedora, and arch. it helps if it's not your primary/only workstation so you can tweak it without pressure. keep at it, it's worth it, I can't imagine using my laptops any other way.

maybe do I write-up one of these days.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago

I'm not doubting it's possible but with the combination of my hardware and the fact I'm on nixos it proved to be too much trial and error, too many options to try and too much time to iterate as I needed to reboot every time it didn't work

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