I decided to install this driver pack since it’s marked as stable, if only to update the fingerprint reader. So far, my experience has been horrible.
While my use case is not a minority, using NVDA as my screen reader, I have never had this experience installing any drivers on other systems and on any other driver pack on my Framework system. Thirty minutes in, and my system is extremely sluggish still, barely responds, and what’s worse, I am not able to determine what it may or may not be doing. I think I’ll be manually extracting and installing things individually from now on, so I can at least determine what is causing such lag and unresponsive behavior. Or perhaps, simply stick with the old, don’t fix what isn’t broken.
I really hope Framework works on their drivers and general software/firmware support more than they have been thus far. Luckily, this is not my primary computer for daily use, and given this experience, I doubt my Framework will become a primary system for my use, which is rather sad.
A few minutes after writing this post, I received a report that it’s finally installing 9/9, some type of USB driver or some such. Unfortunately, I think the video drivers were probably my problem in slowing my system down drastically. And finally now, 37 minutes in, I can finally press any key to restart.
And a little over 2 minutes after pressing any key to restart, it’s finally rebooting. This is not impressive or consistent with any driver install I’ve ever had, which usually only takes a few minutes and doesn’t slow the system down to a crawl.
Luckily, when the system finally restarted which took another 2 minutes, it was perfectly responsive. But, just in case, I’ve completely shut it down and powered it back up manually. So far, still responsive, but this experience was definitely not desired.
