After only 13 years, I am retiring my #Thinkpad#T420s. It did a great job over all these years and I upgraded it to the max, completely disassembled several times. But it was showing its age. I just set up my new personal device, a #FrameworkLaptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD) by @frameworkcomputer - that's a new kind of maintenance-friendly, repairable notebook. Order, delivery, assembly, setup, migration were a blast. No issues, and the installation of @manjarolinux worked out of the box. :awesome:
Apart from common reviews, the two pieces from @pluralistic were interesting reads where he wrote about his experience with Framework, incl. when his device got broken:
@jotbe@pluralistic oh cool, I don’t think I’d heard any reviews about how it actually was to deal with breakage. Both of the aluminum-body laptops in my house are deformed or bent by modest falls…
@c0dec0dec0de@jotbe@pluralistic
My Framework (13th gen Intel) was yanked off the table by a friends dog hitting the power cable. She was horrified, but I was laughing before it hit the floor, safe in the knowledge that ALL parts are available, even if they are needed (not a mark, not even the USB-C port the cable was in was damaged).
The only niggle with Fedora Linux was having to install Windows on a spare SSD to activate the fingerprint sensor, which has since worked fine in Fedora.
@RupertReynolds@jotbe@pluralistic exhibit 1: my laptop. It’s still fully-functional, but you can see the deformation and the imprint of the knurled handle on the dumbbell it fell into from the desk.
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