I really hope one day the Framework laptop will work with the major Linux Distributions with no asterisks. It will definitely require work on both Framework and the Distro maintainer's part, but it is getting better every month. Hopefully if Framework becomes more successful, they will have more say in the hardware manufacturing process, and they will be able to devote more resources to Linux compatibility. I have no need for a laptop now, but maybe a Framework will be in my future if this happens
We focus on making sure that the most popular distros work smoothly. Currently, Ubuntu LTS and Fedora are the two that we provide official support for, since they are the most popular choices for folks who are either new to Linux or aren’t especially interested in tinkering with their OS: https://frame.work/linux
We have a couple of them and were quite happy with the exception of a few minor issues. However the lack of shipping (not beta) firmware updates on a regular schedule has given me pause to recommend framework to others, at least until that gets rectified.
Whoops, accidentally downvoted when meaning to upvote. Sorry!
Thank you for focusing on the mainstream distributions. If our company ever transitioned to Linux on laptops (it would be a stretch because of Office365… probably the best we could do is macOS), we would be targeting Fedora.
This is because only the mainstream distros have MDM features.
I manage to run OpenSuse with Cinnamon desktop on my AMD Framework 13, with a dell dock and 2 odd monitors, the scaling sometimes gets stupid, but that's the only annoying thing I have noticed so far.
OpenSuse has been more of a learning curve than any hardware issue, mostly due to myself being used to Debian and Manjaro/Arch.
