cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21664063
Linux Mint and Framework Laptops Join Forces
The October 2024 edition of Linux Mint’s Monthly News brings exciting updates, including a significant announcement about collaboration with Framework Laptops, having potential to advance Mint’s compatibility with hardware designed with flexibility, repairability, and sustainability in mind.
For those unfamiliar, unlike most traditional laptops, which are often difficult or impossible to repair or upgrade, Framework laptops are built to be user-friendly, making it easy to replace or upgrade components. This modular approach extends the laptop’s lifespan and promotes sustainability by reducing e-waste.
Great news! My only issue is that Clem and team keep on taking up more and more tasks. Of course there’s maintaining both Linux Mint and LMDE, the entire Cinnamon desktop, and their own applications, but there are also all the deb programs they have to package now that Ubuntu is moving further towards snaps, and there’s also the whole new Clutter framework, and the maintaining of GTK3 programs so they don’t have to deal with libadwaita, and then there’s the Cinnamon UI refresh, the Wayland transition, and probably some other things I can’t even think of right now, and they are working on all of that.
And now they’re working on the best compatibility with Framework laptops? I’m just worried that they might be taking too much work for themselves.
I hope this includes LMDE
This is nice, but wouldn’t it make more sense to work with the Linux kernel so their drivers work on any distro?
Framework 17 owner here, they have also partnered with Ubuntu and Fedora as official distros, this is just expanding the ecosystem. They also have a robust and well supported set of communities for other distros and often have their support engineers participate there.
Didn’t know they released a 17" version:p
They do mention compatibility a lot, if it’s hardware, I agree with you. But perhaps they mean something else?
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