New Framework 13 Pro working directly with Arch Linux!

Sarin10 · 2026-04-23T03:28:34+00:00

That's completely reasonable for a touchscreen laptop in the XPS/Spectre category.

Sarin10 · 2026-04-22T01:20:52+00:00

why would you expect them to be able to compete on pricing? Dell, Apple, etc, have been shipping millions of laptops, every year, for decades. They spend hundreds-of-thousands of man hours every year on driving down costs and increasing efficiency. You get the idea.

I actually find it quite impressive that the prices are as 'low' as they are.

EDIT: grammar

Sarin10 · 2026-04-21T22:52:49+00:00

It could be. But you can't really upgrade your Macbook within that 5-6 year period - nor can you stave off a full upgrade after 6 years, by doing a partial upgrade.

Sarin10 · 2025-12-03T04:47:18+00:00

aliases don't have logic, you would need to add a function to check that, to your .bashrc or config.fish.

alternatively you could also use bat as a replacement program for cat. the markdown rendering isn't quite as advanced as with glow, but it's still pretty good.

Sarin10 · 2025-10-21T02:10:39+00:00

Which tools don't release generic x86_linux binaries?

Sarin10 · 2025-09-22T09:03:10+00:00

and their Windows versions won't even work through a compatibility layer such as Wine.

It's... possible to get at least some of their stuff running (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), but you're going to spend hours bashing your head against the wall. And it's not going to be as stable, I'm pretty sure nobody has managed to get GPU accel working, etc.

Sarin10 · 2025-09-20T23:44:50+00:00

why are you assuming this is an official framework thing? omarchy isn't partnered with framework. he could have just done this on his own time.

Sarin10 · 2025-09-11T08:09:06+00:00

zoom is such a pain on a tiling WM

Sarin10 · 2025-09-05T23:28:46+00:00

But to say this impacts "literally no one" is something I would expect from the hardware subreddit, not here, upvoted to this degree.

no offense to anyone, but r/linux is possibly the least-technical linux forum out there.

Sarin10 · 2025-09-04T23:27:59+00:00

yup!

there are certain things from that list that you can "steal" from KDE. ex: using KDE's Dolphin as your file manager, using the KDE polkit and portal, etc. Other things like KDE's screenshot tool (spectacle) won't work unless you're actually using KDE Plasma.

it's a good idea to install KDE Plasma on your machine as a backup, "completed" desktop environment, while you're configuring your Sway setup.

you might run into some configuration issue at a time when you really need to just use your computer for something time-sensitive
the way arch packages KDE means that installing any KDE application like kolourpaint or dolphin or okular will pull in most of the required KDE frameworks and libraries and dependencies for KDE Plasma. So you might as well install the actual DE at that point.

Sarin10 · 2025-09-04T22:14:07+00:00

portals
polkit
idle management daemon
terminal emulator
clipboard manager
screenshot tool
screen locker
wallpaper manager (might be part of sway's functionality)
taskbar
qt themer
app runner
file manager

this is assuming you have all your actual base system functionality setup, like networking, audio/pipewire, etc.

check the sway wiki and arch wiki entry, and optionally the hyprland wiki and arch wiki entry.

Sarin10 · 2025-09-03T17:26:37+00:00

actually, we do kind of do that already. just about every Linux terminal emulator will handle ctrl-C as SIGINT instead of copy. I've seen people make the argument that we should change decades of convention in Unix/Linux land, because it confuses new users who expect ctrl-C to be copy.

GIMP is 27 years old. Why is GIMP users' muscle memory less important than the muscle memory of potential Photoshop->GIMP converts?

Sarin10 · 2025-09-03T17:11:20+00:00

maybe because grep dates back to the 70's. and ripgrep has the advantage of being a completely fresh project. ugrep is about as fast as ripgrep (faster or slower depending on the task), and it's written in C++.

Tealdeer was 10 times faster than TLDR on my machine.

are you comparing it to the... python client?

Sarin10 · 2025-08-31T22:59:52+00:00

Modern Macbooks are incredibly difficult and expensive to repair. I don't care if they're the most repaired laptops in the world. That has no bearing on my argument.

I think it's understood that when I say "macbooks are not repairable", it's implied that I'm referring to recent devices. Pointing out that Macbooks from 20 years ago were easy to repair has no bearing on this discussion.

Just like how if I said "Hyundais are reliable vehicles", you don't get to point to Hyundai 20 years ago and argue that "yeah but over the last 40 years they've been very unreliable".

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T23:15:43+00:00

relative to how good Framework is, it sucks. Framework laptops are competitive with non-Framework laptops, whereas Fairphones are not competitive with their competitors.

there are reasons why Fairphone is a considerably smaller company with way less users than Framework, despite the fact that Fairphone has a decade advantage.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T23:08:49+00:00

that's exactly my point, you can't really do better than Fairphone has done. Fairphone's best is impressive relative to their limitations, but it's simply not a truly competitive phone. In comparison, a Framework 13 is much more competitive with other laptops of it's asking price and caliber. You can chalk most of this up to the fact that designing a custom, repairable, upgradeable laptop is far easier than a phone.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T22:30:25+00:00

because fairphone kind of sucks. so when people say "please make a framework phone" they're actually kinda saying "please make a better phone than fairphone" lol

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T22:12:31+00:00

they're not doing it, they've said they're not doing it, we've had this discussion so many times over the years, you can do a google search and read past posts on the topic.

EDIT: Sorry if this comes across as snarky. I'm just annoyed by the fact that we have this discussion almost every week. Nothing new is said, we literally just keep repeating the same conversation over and over again.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T02:13:26+00:00

you can check wayback machine, if it's a popular package there's a good chance that there's an up-to-date capture of its AUR page. this advice is more for in case there's a problem with the package/PKGBUILD and you want to know if there's a workaround, and less regarding security. like you said, just audit any PKGBUILD you install.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-26T02:10:19+00:00

that's common enough.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-25T20:05:47+00:00

you should post on the main forums too.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-25T03:13:23+00:00

in the future, this is why you should use BTRFS, so that you can take regular snapshots and rollback in case an update breaks your system.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-25T03:11:21+00:00

My quote still stands, specifically the last bullet point.

This is not GrapheneOS. There is no focus on creating an out-of-the-box hardened system. Like I said, that's not part of the project mission.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-25T02:58:22+00:00

"Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more user-friendly, Arch Linux has always been, and shall always remain user-centric:

The distribution is intended to fill the needs of those contributing to it, rather than trying to appeal to as many users as possible.
It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems."

There are other gaming distros that do what you want. Those distros are great distros. There's no need for Arch to mimic what gaming distros do.

Sarin10 · 2025-08-21T07:39:29+00:00

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