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Just got my new 12th gen framework, swapped drives, added a skin, realized I was sent an AZERTY keyboard, and booted up. Loaded in to sway exactly as configured on my 11th gen, but the brightness keys don’t work. Syste…

I don’t see other reports of Debian 12 on the 13th gen Intel FW13, so I’m sharing observations from my first two days of use, including a full workday. TL;DR: Easy install. Works fine. GNOME font scaling (not fraction…

This is based on a post I made on the Qubes OS forums. However, as I am unable to update the original after a certain time, I wanted to post a solved method for getting the kinks out of setup. This was tested on Qubes 4…

13th gen ONLY and those with older Framework 13 generations that have received input cover replacements only. Greetings all, We have identified the issue with this batch for fingerprint readers and the firmware team ha…

Preface/“What & Why?” A “zero-swap” hibernation partition, as I’m calling it (is there an established name for this?), is a swap partition dedicated to hibernate & resume services. I think some distinction is merited s…

Greetings Frameworkers! I’d like to share some information with you today on an open source project some of us have been working on called Universal Blue. There’s a few years of information to condense here, so I apolog…

Making this the dedicated Nix thread, will merge Nix issues to better make this a resource.

Ubuntu 23.04 is available. The announcement is here . I created this thread to be used for the Ubuntu 23.04 main thread. You can download Ubuntu 23.04 here . Installation Guide: Ubuntu 23.04 Installation on the Framewor…

Fedora Workstation 38 is available April 18th. The announcement is here . I created this thread to be used for the Fedora 38 main thread. You can download Fedora Workstation 38 here. (Edited magazine link to reflect actu…

I’d like to create a mega-thread that is very high-level for anyone new to Linux to understand and get a recommendation for a distro. There are many threads asking for recommendations and my hope is that this post will b…

Just so everyone knows, we are bringing back [Tagging] outside of merely just marking something as solved. This was discussed by my team and it has been determined not doing this makes tracking posts a lot more difficult…

This is a somehow personal step-by-step documentation, how I achieved hibernation and suspend-then-hibernate on a recent Fedora system with enabled secure boot. Basically you patch the kernel to allow hibernation with en…

I recently set up an RX 580 in a Razer Core X Thunderbolt 3 enclosure on my 1135g7 Framework using an external display, and ran some benchmarks in Fedora 37 and Windows 10. Here are some of my results, as well as a simpl…

I was running the live ISO of “Kali Linux 2022.3 everything” off of my expansion card using Ventoy, and noticed that it would not load the correct driver for the AX210 card. Using either an Ethernet connection, or a dif…

Linux Mint 21.1 Beta was recently released (Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” – BETA Release – The Linux Mint Blog ). I tested it on a Framework Laptop with 11th and 12th Gen Intel Core, and it works smoothly. I updated our guide …

Installation The installation guide is available here: Ubuntu 22.10 Installation on the Framework Laptop - Framework Guides Workarounds 22.10 works out of the box. You can improve suspend battery life by following: Li…

Fedora Linux 37 is available now. The announcement is here. I created this thread to be used for the Fedora 37 main thread. Installation Guide: Fedora 37 Installation on the Framework Laptop - Framework Guides Guys, fe…

Despite openSUSE not being one of the distros that was officially tested by the Framework team, it works surprisingly well on the Framework. There were just a couple of things that I needed to do to make openSUSE work as…

This thread is to manage the content on Debian unstable (sid) branch. For Debian’s 3 kind of branches: unstable (sid), testing and stable, you can see Debian releases and Debian#Branches - Wikipedia. Installation As so…

Installation The installation guide is available here: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Installation on the Framework Laptop - Framework Guides Workarounds 22.04 pretty much works out of the box. You can improve suspend battery life…

Ubuntu: There is now an official guide for Optimizing Ubuntu Battery Life on the Framework Knowledgebase written by Linux Support Lead @Matt_Hartley! If you are using Ubuntu, that is the recommended course of action. F…

Hello friends, We’re excited that so many of you have chosen Framework over others in this very crowded laptop space. We’re also excited that we have a very vibrant Linux community that have rallied around Framework and…

Hey all, I’m Cassidy James Blaede, co-founder of elementary, Inc., the company behind elementary OS. We’ve just released elementary OS 6, and at the same time, the Framework team was kind enough to send a pre-production …

This is a wiki post, so feel free to edit it with instructions on installing and using Arch! Known issues: Right click doesn’t work on the version of libinput currently in Arch. You’ll need to downgrade to 1.17.1-1 …