I wondered a few things, why you don’t support debian as an official distro, not everyone likes canonical and fedora.
Also, I have a weird issue with my alt keys, they used to work on devuan, now they don’t as of a week of installing. an upgrade might have caused this. I wondered if there is a fix for this…
I currently use devuan 4, daedalus
my compter has amd 7640U ryzen 5.
It would be nice if debian and devuan were supported, or at least debian. The ones supported all have that systemd bloat on them without any choice of escape.
I recall hearing debian made the option return after a vote thogh.
It is impossible to please everyone with their favorite flavors of Linux. A lot of the decisions are probably based on support for a particular build come down to a level of hardware support.
It is far too difficult to be an emerging company to establish themselves in the marketplace and continue to support a variety of hardware. There is a good reason all the major PC manufacturers have not wanted to support Unix/Linux/BSD in the past.
Suggestions for future consideration are usually found in the General Topics discussions.
It is important to note that Framework only “Officially” supports ubuntu and fedora to reduce the amount of internal testing that they do to ensure compatibility, and you are perfectly fine to run any distro you want, but that Support can only help you with troubleshooting on the supported distros. If you use any other distro, you can still come to the forums for help.
Basically you need to just repro an issue you are having on Debian on a support distro if you want official support. If you can’t likely it’s already been fixed in the kernel.
Someone else mentioned current kernels. I would agree that new hardware and especially laptop hardware you want very current kernels. Older machines and desktop not so much.
My problem is, I would like my keys to work properly. Isn’t there a way the framework team could make a package that could be installed on any distro that controls the keyboard keys?
That would really be nice if they could do that. And then if something goes wrong, people ask for help here. That is literally the only problem I have right now that is software, other than the weird issue I just posted moments ago
the F keys. The stranger thing btw is I have this option in my window manager jwm, called jwmkit. It has a hotkey option where you can set up combinations to make certain things happen. Like mod key alt + s and having the outcome be a terminal opens.
I tried to press f4 but I found the secondary functions appear instead. Audiovolume for example or w/e for example instead of whatever F key was there.
One other idea would be to boot up a debian 12 or devuan desktop-live and see if the keys work or not there to help narrow down if its something specific to your setup or not.
Maybe, but I have noticed that I tried to change to a terminal when in a gui. With alt control + f1, f2, you get the idea…
doesn’t work.
But I tried to change alt or control to fn and it worked.
Aka, instead of control alt I ended up using fn + control + f1, f2, etc…
and it worked. This tells me, that my keyboard is either bugging, or some other software is bugging on it. 6.1 might be too old which surprises me. But eventually, 6.10 will be the standard thankfully when new debian comes out.
I wonder if I should just buy more ram. Or if it would still happen. lol.
Although, I suppose it could be less of a problem with more ram. I don’t know.
Actually, I just figured out what happened, not in the bios, but in the OS itself, my fn keys got swapped somehow. turns out my keys were all screwy.
I could get alt escape to close windows but not alt f4. I think I triggered some kind of hidden option. Something like numlock, or something less predictable. Idk… what happened. Its likely that some weird key swap was triggered. Because I can now get alt f1-f12 to work again.
ALT F4 now works on that computer again. Now my only problem is that one of my expansion ports doesn’t work still. Its a step up.