Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front a... by haunter on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:27PM (#47903857)

This kind of mediocrity what holds the Linux world back by a big extent. Arguably Apple makes the best hardware currently, spec wise and build quality wise too. You can ignore them and turn to mediocrity or you can strive to be like them and even better than them! Framework says that we can be better in some departments (modularity) while also trying to match their (Apple’s) design and build quality.

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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front a... by kristopolous on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:29PM (#47903877)

So as a consumer I could easily purchase a MacBook. My money works the same as everyone else's.

I've said a hard and firm no to them. I've even gotten those computers from work and did not use them.

When shopping for laptop from an alternative why would I be wanting a clone of the thing I've already affirmed I'm not interested it by the nature of my interest in alternatives?

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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front a... by dummydummy1234 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:47PM (#47904008)

So you are not the target audience for this.

The target is people who would buy a MacBook but want to run Linux.

There are many people who turn down the MacBook, not because of build quality, or design, but because it does not support Linux.

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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front a... by kristopolous on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:21PM (#47904261)

Some people don't like the design, some don't like the ecosystem, keyboard, ports, ... there's a gestalt of decisions, a unified direction apple products go in.

I know the HN comment thread is people who don't see this as an ideology and who have drawers full of apple products and used to work there for years but see this as not a preference in the slightest ... I know who I'm talking to but I for some weird strange, neurodivergent reason, insist on reality.

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