Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?

  • Lumilias@pawb.socialEnglish
    141·
    8 months ago

    The only caution I would provide on Framework is their relative lack of BIOS updates: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

    They don’t have a BIOS updater for Linux (yet) and they have a history of overpromising stable updates. I get they’re hamstrung by upstream providers, but it’s a bad look on them to basically deliver a promised Thunderbolt update 1.5 years after announcing it. The CEO did say at least that they’ve hired on a new development team to get things moving, so hopefully they’ll be able to catch up.

    Everything else I’ve heard about Framework is stellar.

    • kelvie
      6·
      8 months ago

      I updated my AMD framework BIOS using fwupd last weekend with no problem on arch.

      • Lumilias@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Thanks for the info. I wonder if it’s just the older Intel laptops that need the catchup then.

    • www-gem@lemmy.ml
      5·
      8 months ago

      I’ve been watching on the framework machines for my next one. It looks like fwupd support them for BIOS updates. Framework owners will know more for sure.