I installed Debian 13 on a new Framework 12 last night, and I haven’t found any problems yet. Wifi works, Bluetooth works, touchscreen works, tablet mode works (keyboard locks out, screen orientation changes), touchpad works (including gestures), HDMI out works, sound works, sleep/resume works, hibernation/resume works with full disk encryption (using Debian installer’s defaults; only had to disable Secure Boot support in UEFI setup for the hibernate action to become available)… What am I missing? Why isn’t Debian 13 listed as, at least, a community-supported Linux distro? This is with KDE Plasma 6, by the way, which is fantastic on this laptop. Couldn’t be happier, I think.
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I’m not sure, but I could imagine, there has to be a community speaking with framework to support it?
I can report that Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (based on Debian 13) works fine, too. I had to turn on automatic screen rotation and I still need to find out how to move the onscreen keyboard from the top to the bottom of the screen in Cinnamon, but that’s not really my use case too often, so it’s rather curiosity than urgent need.
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Ditto. I’ve been running Debian 13 (Trixie)/GNOME for 3-4 months, no issues. Everything just works as you noted.
Some tweaks I’ve made to my setup:
Firefox Default is the ESR version, not bad but some sites I visit regularly nagged me about my browser not being the latest. So I updated FF to the latest via this procedure: Install Firefox on Linux | Firefox Help This adds the latest FF to your repository and keeps it updated over time. It works, I’ve been through 3 or four updates and am now on FF 148. One thing to be aware of, FF 147/148 seem to be a memory hog. I noted my memory usage go up to 30-40%. Early FF versions were more like 20-30%.
Just yesterday I updated my Kernel to 6.18.12+deb13-amd64, super easy to do following this procedure: HowToUpgradeKernel - Debian Wiki I did this simply out of curiosity to see it works. It did, and and my FW12 operates as good (maybe a bit better) as it did before the update. It fact what I have noticed is FF memory usage has decreased. Seems to be holding ~30% +/-. And battery life might be a bit better. (I took my FW12 off the charger ~12pm yesterday (I charge to 80% for battery health reasons) and as I type this the battery shows 21% remaining. During this period I used the machine on and off for a few 2-3hour periods, and a handful shorter intervals, putting the machine in suspend (close the lid) between use.
Not “officially” supported by FW, who cares. In the early days of Linux there were no HW vendors supporting Linux, and only a handful nowadays. Us Denizens of Debian have this FW support forum with a handful of tags/categories to help us find each other to keep our systems running.
So that’s my story, I’m sticking with Debian until something better comes along. Better for me is timely but not excessive updates (looking at you Fedora & all you Arch based rolling releases :-), rock solid stability, and security.
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Rod