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<h2 id="org0b9238e">My Experience with the Framework Laptop</h2>
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<h2 id="org3922ed8">My Experience with the Framework Laptop</h2>
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<h3 id="orgd0c4024">Ordering</h3>
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I&rsquo;d been eyeing the <a href="https:frame.work">Framework laptop</a> since somewhere in October 2021, but the EU release got delayed and they were very hesitant to give time estimates. I only managed to get my hands on it in late February, and I ended up having to have it delivered to France. I understand the difficulty of setting up logistics especially these days, but I broke my previous laptop and being stuck in limbo like this was not fun.
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<h3 id="org37f7ce6">Set-up</h3>
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<h3 id="org701b18a">Set-up</h3>
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<h4 id="orgda2542b">Hardware</h4>
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<h4 id="orgc90f4b2">Hardware</h4>
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I got the DIY edition with the (lowest-end) i5-1135G7 CPU, 2x16GB RAM. I brought my own 1TB SSD. The higher spec CPUs didn&rsquo;t seem worth the money to me. The RAM is probably overkill.
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<h4 id="orge652eab">Software</h4>
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<h4 id="orgba50120">Software</h4>
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I installed Gentoo GNU+Linux on the laptop, just like I have on my desktop. I used an Ubuntu live CD as the install medium together with the Gentoo stage3 tarball, and it worked well. I didn&rsquo;t really have to jump through any laptop-specific hoops, it was a very nice experience. I did use the dist-kernel rather than configuring my own.
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The laptop held up well during compiling. It&rsquo;s not as fast as a desktop of course, but compile times are not limiting. I&rsquo;ve put this thing through bootstrapping GCC for a cross-compilation toolchain, which is just about the biggest compile job I&rsquo;ve ran, and it wasn&rsquo;t <i>that</i> painful.
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<h5 id="org1f35d6f">Display scaling</h5>
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<h5 id="org04178c8">Display scaling</h5>
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Simply setting <code>Xft.dpi: 192</code> in .Xresources was enough for the vast majority of applications to use 2x scaling, which looks very good on this display. This is on X11 obviously; I don&rsquo;t use Wayland.
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<h5 id="org405e54f">Display manager</h5>
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<h5 id="orga36529a">Display manager</h5>
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I used SDDM which works very well. I wanted to go for something a bit fancier looking, and this delivers. I don&rsquo;t usually use things in the whole QT ecosystem, so it&rsquo;s refreshing.
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<h5 id="org3e5f57e">Hibernate/suspend-to-disk</h5>
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This required setting up a swap file and setting a kernel command line parameter to refer to it, but it was easy to do. It works well. I&rsquo;ve observed the laptop auto-hibernating when the battery runs out, but it doesn&rsquo;t do this reliably, so I should probably configure it myself.
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<h5 id="org3b37e14"><a href="http://guake-project.org/">Guake</a>-like transient terminal</h5>
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<h5 id="org37ad6f7"><a href="http://guake-project.org/">Guake</a>-like transient terminal</h5>
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Using some <code>fish</code> scripts, <code>bspwm</code>, <code>picom</code> and <code>xst</code> I rigged up a transient, transparent terminal to use for quick shell jobs. I used the scripts and config file in <a href="#orgf32d0b4">Appendix A</a> to do this. The implementation is a bit hacky, and it&rsquo;s not impossible to break, but it serves my purposes well (and more important, it was fun to make)!
Using some <code>fish</code> scripts, <code>bspwm</code>, <code>picom</code> and <code>xst</code> I rigged up a transient, transparent terminal to use for quick shell jobs. I used the scripts and config file in <a href="#org60f27c2">Appendix A</a> to do this. The implementation is a bit hacky, and it&rsquo;s not impossible to break, but it serves my purposes well (and more important, it was fun to make)!
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<h5 id="org1fc0b06">Wallpaper-setting script</h5>
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<h5 id="orgb82d5ac">Wallpaper-setting script</h5>
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I wrote a script to set a random wallpaper.
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<h5 id="orgcbd89f5">Lockscreen</h5>
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<h5 id="org4e724d2">Lockscreen</h5>
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I hacked together some <a href="#org3ee9b02">pretty crappy code</a> to lock the screen using <code>i3lock</code>, with my wallpaper composed with a little lock icon as the background. Very overengineered.
I hacked together some <a href="#orgb0f5446">pretty crappy code</a> to lock the screen using <code>i3lock</code>, with my wallpaper composed with a little lock icon as the background. Very overengineered.
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<h5 id="org5657a38"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> </h5>
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<li><a id="orgdcc8962"></a>Battery level notifications<br></li>
<li><a id="orga6af427"></a>sleep-then-hibernate<br></li>
<li><a id="org2d03427"></a>Battery tuning<br></li>
<li><a id="org28beca3"></a>Battery level notifications<br></li>
<li><a id="orga6ccd83"></a>sleep-then-hibernate<br></li>
<li><a id="org52e5290"></a>Battery tuning<br></li>
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<h3 id="org9d2d3c7">Impressions</h3>
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<h3 id="org3229d8b">Impressions</h3>
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<h5 id="org07a1807">Build Quality</h5>
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<h5 id="org3ffd4a7">Build Quality</h5>
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The laptop is made of aluminium and feels solid but light. The screen does seem pretty flimsy, though. I probably wouldn&rsquo;t want to drop this thing. It looks sleek and elegant, but pretty muted.
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<h5 id="orgecd726c">Screen</h5>
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<h5 id="orgb5ae9ff">Screen</h5>
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This is my first time ever using a high-DPI screen, and I&rsquo;m very impressed by it. Text looks unbelievably crisp and pleasant to read. I was somewhat worried about the linux high DPI situation, but I am having no issues whatsoever.
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<h5 id="orgde03323">Keyboard</h5>
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Framework seems to advertise their keyboard as having particularly deep travel, but it mostly just feels like any chiclet keyboard to me. Not a bad chiclet keyboard, but not that great, either. The layout is fine, but it makes me miss the thinkpad.
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<h5 id="org25260c2">Touchpad</h5>
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I&rsquo;ve never had a decent touchpad before, so I was pleasantly surprised. I expected to miss the trackpoint on the thinkpad a lot, but this is fine, though it&rsquo;s still a step down. Pinch to zoom doesn&rsquo;t work very well, but I don&rsquo;t use that functionality a lot. I miss having dedicated mouse buttons; the clicking functionality on this touchpad works fine for me, but it&rsquo;s hard not to mess up left/middle/right click. That&rsquo;s a good incentive for me to practice relying on the mouse less, though. There&rsquo;s plenty of <a href="https://linuxtouchpad.org/">work being done</a> on the Linux touchpad experience software-side, too. It&rsquo;s a nice time to be a linux laptop user!
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<h5 id="orgb8ba47b">Battery</h5>
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With the disclaimer that I haven&rsquo;t tested very intensely and I haven&rsquo;t tuned power settings very much. <br>
I seem to get about 6.5 hours of real-world use time when using Emacs and doing light web browsing. I don&rsquo;t have a good benchmark for more intensive tasks, but compiling does hit the battery pretty hard. All in all I&rsquo;m very happy with it, getting decent battery life on Linux is hard. It might be worth eventually buying a power bank for it though, for travel~
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<h5 id="orgb90afbe">Expansion cards/ports</h5>
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<h5 id="org98fb61b">Expansion cards/ports</h5>
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The little expansion cards are one of Framework&rsquo;s big marketing things. I think they&rsquo;re pretty neat, though I don&rsquo;t always quite understand the way people talk about them, as &ldquo;dongle killers&rdquo;. I would find hotswapping these about equally obnoxious as carrying dongles. The idea of aftermarket expansion cards is interesting, though - these are low level, high bandwidth ports, with I think similar capabilities to the ExpressCard ports on old business laptops, but more modern with a USB-C port. I&rsquo;m looking forward to the USB4 era!
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<h5 id="orgbedb84e">Performance</h5>
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<h5 id="org2d641f8">Performance</h5>
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So far I haven&rsquo;t felt limited by performance at all, the experience has been really snappy. I haven&rsquo;t thrown particularly difficult things at it, though, but that&rsquo;s fine - most of what I do on a laptop is reading, web browsing, and text editing. I played some Factorio on it and that seemed fine, but using the touchpad felt limiting so I didn&rsquo;t play very much.
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<h3 id="orgc68f01d">Closing words</h3>
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Getting this laptop set up has been really fun! It&rsquo;s a good opportunity to take stock of where we&rsquo;re at. On the hardware side, I am very impressed that it&rsquo;s now possible to make a laptop that&rsquo;s this user-servicable, this well-specced and still not <i>that</i> expensive. It&rsquo;s a reminder of how much better things could be.
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<h2 id="orgf32d0b4">Appendix A: Transient Terminal Sources</h2>
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<h2 id="org60f27c2">Appendix A: Transient Terminal Sources</h2>
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<code>togglescratch</code>
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<h2 id="org3ee9b02">Appendix B: lock.py</h2>
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<h2 id="orgb0f5446">Appendix B: lock.py</h2>
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