You are supporting the biggest threat to the open platforms we have. And you are actively not supporting the ones that keep it alive.

How is that an odd argument? Voting with your wallet suddenly doesn't count because shiny?

Intel and AMD aren't so bad for openness

Yeah, no, that is delusional.

Sure, you can go the purist route if you want. But it is not either or, few things in life are.

Purism, System76, Framework etc. are not evil.

If only the hardware on their laptops would be 100% functional.

Works quite well for me.

As in, "the hardware features that don't work are irrelevant to me", or "I enjoy tinkering"?

https://frame.work/de/en/linux

Are you making such a big deal out of the fingerprint reader?

Having used GNU/Linux since kernel 1.0.9 and subscribed all Linux User Journal issues since the 5th issue until their insolvency, I am quite aware of I am talking about.

What FUD, when the Framework themselves admit none of the provided Linux distributions support 100% of the hardware features they are selling?

We already had white brands doing the same 20 years ago during the dot-com wave.

Eventually tinkering becomes tiresome.

> when the Framework themselves admit none of the provided Linux distributions support 100% of the hardware features they are selling?

Which means you get exactly what was advertised. Try the other two companies in my list.

The standard reply, here

https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/s/dohrbjShW6

Great experience for Apple like prices. /s

This is FUD. I flagged your post.

Also: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No it's not. They've changed their policies retroactively multiple times. When people originally ordered the Purism 5, they could get a refund at any time. Then they changed it multiple times, and now you can't get a refund at all.

> I'm not a big fan of any SoCs which have soldered-on RAM or storage,

Funny way of putting "I am stupefied people pay actual, real world money for a laptop with soldered on storage".

Soldered CPU/memory makes sense for performance. Part of why Apple's M SoCs blow Intel/AMD away so hard is that the physical signal paths are incredibly short and don't have physical sockets in their way, so way better signal integrity and less worrying about EMI.

> Soldered CPU/memory makes sense for performance.

And I have talked about storage.

You wrote "soldered RAM", and besides, the argument is just as valid for storage given today's transfer bus speeds.

that was my parent, I didn't.

Laptops may still make some sense, but a desktop!! You can easily get 2x value going with an assembled.