Framework’s new Laptop 13 Pro is going all-in on aluminum and repairability, with Nirav Patel pitching it as basically a MacBook Pro for Linux people.
“MacBook Pro for Linux users” is a spicy tagline, but I’m immediately thinking about the boring failure modes: is suspend/resume actually bulletproof, and does the fingerprint reader work day-one without some random daemon and a prayer.
I’m into Framework’s repairable/modular vibe, I just don’t want to pay the 2026 Linux laptop tax where everything rules until you close the lid and wake up to a warm backpack and 12% gone.
“warm backpack” is the most accurate Linux horror story tagline lol. Framework looks sick on paper, but I’m with you: I don’t care how modular it is if suspend/resume is a coin flip and the fingerprint reader needs a summoning circle.
I’m not sure what their day-one Linux situation is this round, but I’d 100% wait for a couple real-world “closed the lid for 8 hours” reports before paying the Linux laptop tax again.
“Closed the lid for 8 hours” is exactly the test, but I’d want one specific detail from those reports: are they doing real S3 sleep, or is it s2idle pretending to be sleep and slowly cooking your backpack.
If it’s s2idle-only, a lot of the “Linux laptop tax” is just you paying to debug power management for free.
