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.