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Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro including full Linux support right from the beginning.

Some quick information about the Device:

  • will use Intel Core Ultra 300 (Panther-Lake)
  • updated Battery Design with (up to) 20h Battery life
  • custom designed Display Panel with Touch support (keeping the 3:2 aspect ratio)
  • LPCAMM2 for upgradable/replacable RAM without compromising on Speed/Low Power of LPDDR5X
  • milled Aluminium Unibody chassis
  • Full Linux support right from the start (including Firmware update via LVFS, Fingerprint Reader, etc.)
  • Haptic Touchpad
  • and all the repairability features Framework is known for

You can watch their YouTube Video for a quick summary:

I was looking for a new laptop to replace my old Lenovo Yoga 370 and initially disregarded the Framework 13 because of some downsides (low Battery Life, bad Camera, etc.) and was looking to go with one of the following devices:

  • HP Elitebook X g1a
  • the new Dell XPS 14
  • Asus Expertbook PM5 G2

or also a MacBook pro. I am using Linux since more then 10 years and never touched MacOS at all. So I was not sure if MacOS would work for me. But this announcement made it easy: It will be a Framework 13 Pro with Intel X7 358H!

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

EDIT: You can safely ignore most of what I wrote. Rails World is the DHH Rails conference (I am not a rails person) that they sponsor.

~~I can't figure out if this is true or not.~~

They did sponsor Omarchy, and they do still list on their linux support page that they seed hardware to Omarchy, but on their official list of sponsorships (included in the spoiler/hidden block so as not to spam/monopolize the thread) they do not list Omarchy.

So I don't know what the current situation is, but it does appear they're distancing themselves from it a bit. They last posted on Bluesky about Omarchy 8 months ago (about when the scandals happened).

Actually: in writing this I realized that Hyprland is also problematic, or maybe they're not anymore, but they are listed in their sponsorships. So I don't actually know what that means.

https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

Full List of Sponsorships, Mar 25, 2026

Organization/Event Type Sponsorship amount
Los Altos Hacks IX Monetary + product sponsorship $500
Daydream Hackathon Monetary sponsorship $500
Aeroespacial Association COSMOS at the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) Monetary sponsorship 3x units
Open Hardware Summit hosted by Open Source Hardware Association Monetary sponsorship $500
DebConf Monetary sponsorship €2,000
NixCon Product sponsorship 1x unit
KDE Akademy Monetary sponsorship €2,000
Labscon 2025 Product sponsorship 3x units
SemiTO-V (University Team) Monetary sponsorship €500
RISC-V International Product sponsorship 2x units
Nerdearla Monetary sponsorship €800
Linux Fest Northwest Monetary sponsorship + event booth $500
Open Source Summit North America and Open Source Summit Europe hosted by Linux Foundation Monetary sponsorship + event booth $20,000
COSCUP Monetary sponsorship + event booth $6,000
Texas Linux Fest - hosted by Texas Linux Festival (TXLF) Monetary sponsorship + event booth $2,500
Hackaday Supercon Monetary sponsorship + event booth $30,000
Rails World Monetary sponsorship + event booth €24,000
Hack Club Facilitated donation $87,000
Linux Foundation Monetary sponsorship $5,000/year
Hyprland Monetary sponsorship €7,200/year
LVFS Monetary sponsorship $10,000/year
Arch Linux Monetary sponsorship $5,000/year
Debian Monetary sponsorship $5,000/year
CachyOS Monetary sponsorship $3,000/year
Bazzite Monetary sponsorship $3,000/year
NixOS Monetary sponsorship €2592/year
FreeBSD Monetary sponsorship $5,000/year
NetBSD Monetary sponsorship $2,500/year
KDE Monetary sponsorship €10,000/year
[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

wether they still support omarchy or not is kinda irrelevant because rails world (which is in your list) is run by the same guy

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 9 hours ago

Why might Framework want to sponsor Rails World? Everything else in that list makes sense to me, as they are software projects that can have a direct effect on a user's experience witn Framework hardware. But Rails World is all about a web development framework, right? That is like, three degrees of separation from Framework hardware. Donating to Rails World sounds to me like just a roundabout way to keep donating to Omarchy without having to say "we are donating to Omarchy".

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do the organizations run by that guy further fascist goals, or is the issue that they are led by a fascist?

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

On this site, they are one and the same. Judging from the website, though, it's just a conference about Ruby on Rails.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You mean to say that people on this site are claiming that individuals with publicly stated agendas and goals might possibly use the fiscal and/or reputational benefits of the organisations they control to aid in the furthering of whatever goals/agendas they may have?

Point me in their direction, i shall have words...big ones...like wherewithal ...or extrapolation....prestidigitation...etc.

Clearly these people are buttering their toast with a teaspoon, seems like an incredible leap to me and i bet they couldn't even provide a single example of this happening in the modern day.....illogical plebeians.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I did not know that, updated my comment accordingly.

I'm not in the rails community, so this was news to me.