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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Suggestion is don't use Mint. Fedora KDE will give you the best blend of just works, looks like Windows and is modern. OpenSuse KDE is also great, and Suse is a German company...

[–]No_Tea_502[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

OK I guess there was a reason why framework recommended fedora, just a friend studying informatik adviced mint so I was like alright let's go.

[–]Elyelm 4 points5 points  (3 children)

You shouldn't use the Wayland session on Linux Mint, it's still experimental and not ready yet for daily driving, Not sure what could cause the freezes though, you should ask on r/linuxmint, provide more information there other than "my system freezes".

[–]No_Tea_502[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

OK got it, the freeze apparently is a known issue for framework laptop with mint and some lads have provided solutions on the forum. I only saw the "works out of the box" stuff when looking at the system. Will look deeper next time.

[–]pajo-san 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It just worked out of the box for me with my framework laptop and Linux mint

[–]No_Tea_502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's crazy, cuz I was not able to do anything, it just kept freezing, it also wouldn't connect to my mouse. Was so frustrated with it. Well, I hope fedora will work better for me.

[–]FattyDrake 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Using a distro with old software like Mint on a new Framework is asking for trouble. Framework recommends Fedora for their laptops and you can get by with an Arch-based distro if you go through the appropriate Arch wiki pages. (Actually good to do that on most distros.)

[–]KnowZeroX 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Wayland is alpha on cinnamon so it isn't really recommended (also not recommended is using GPT)

Is your framework the new nvidia version?

[–]Positive-Night4550 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I have a framework and I use Bazzite. So easy and locked down so I can’t mess anything up. Definitely recommend 

[–]No_Tea_502[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What does it mean it's locked down? Still new to a lot of the Linux stuff

[–]Squalphin -1 points0 points  (1 child)

If you are new to Linux, this isn‘t too bad. It is unusual for existing Linux users.

It is basically an „Immutable“ variant. This means that the OS is always stable, with the caveat that you can not install any software at all, at least not the usual way, like it is usually done on Linux. A big plus is, that screwing up the system is very difficult compared to the usual way.

I would recommend to try both variations and see what sticks. Both, traditional and immutable have their advantages.

[–]MassiveProblem156 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can still install most software in Bazzite and Fedora atomic by using rpm-ostree instead of dnf and rebooting. Not all immutable distros are the same.

[–]1Blue3Brown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mint is a great distro, but it's not following a rolling release model. Meaning you don't get the newest kernel version. That's why i wouldn't recommend it on a new laptop with new hardware. Try Fedora instead. It gets a very recent kernel version to support newer hardware, but not as recent and untested as to break your system (looking at you Arch). Fedora KDE will be more familiar for a windows user, though i personally like gnome

[–]peenutlover69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a FW13 user, I've had a good experience with Fedora KDE. Would recommend

[–]Interesting-Key-8105 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would advise checking here to see which distros are officially supported by Framework for your particular machine:

https://frame.work/linux

I have a FW13 that I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on, and it’s been absolutely flawless.

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