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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 think there is a (very) small NixOS user community here. Maybe we can coalesce somewhere in this forum for specific NixOS related issues. I have one. Is anyone able to turn the great fw-ectool by DHowett GitHub - DHow…

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: Pop!_OS 22.04 Installation on the Framework Laptop - Framework Guides Workarounds Pop!_OS 22.04 works out of the box. Download Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS Released: Pop!…

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…

There are many threads on linux battery life. I think we should probably have a wiki page with the relevant information. I’ve dug out some relevant bits from various threads. Tuning idle power usage Install the powerto…

Automated post-install setup of Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 on the Framework Laptop CAUTION This has been tested on Ubuntu 20.04.3, 20.04.4 and 22.04 Beta (Linux 5.11, Linux 5.13 and Linux 5.15), on Frameworks with i5, i7 a…

Fedora 35 is now released and has effectively full support out of the box for the Framework Laptop. Installation A detailed step-by-step guide is available here. Short instructions are below. Create Fedora 35 USB ins…

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 …