Framework Laptop Community

The workflow

I am using fedora 39. I mainly use the laptop for email, slack, zoom, latex and light coding in vscodium, freetube, and occasionally some slides in libreoffice. However, I do use ltex extension, which runs a local languagetool instance when I write latex. So my work load is probably slightly more resource intensive than regular office work.

The problems:

It sometimes will have graphical glich (blinking white stripe in the middle) quite rarely when wake up from suspend. I expect it to happen around or less than once a week. I would typically use that opportunity to update anyway, so it dont bothet me that much.

Another problem is that the battery life is not ideal, I typically charge my laptop to below 85% battery, and it only last one and half an hour of video conferencing on zoom. For normal use, I am expecting three to four hours of battery life. So you will probably need a charger when you travel. Fortunately a tiny 30w PD phone charger is more than enough to keep the charge level during normal workload.

Several flatpak app do not work, including megasync and freetube; however their rpm version works flawlessly.

The speaker is not great, but good enough for youtube. It does work in bed, despite being a bottom firing speaker.

The good parts:

• The fan almost never spins, and the laptop barely gets hot.
• The suspend battery life is amazing, I only lose couple percent over night.
• Every hardware feature works out of the box for me, except fingerprint sensor. But that is on firmware 3.02, firmware 3.03 probably fixed the issue.