

Having shifted to Arch Linux for the past month or so, I had been missing the two-finger scrolling. However one of the features that I grew to love about MacBook is the multi-touch trackpad, especially the two-finger scrolling. Applications are installed in their individual directories and are almost never in the path when one needs to execute them from the command line. Try entering a command line option at the end of a command – For eg. OS X according to me is highly bloated and a very poor unix platform. I’m not a huge fan of either the MacBook or Mac OS X. To make the 3.5mm TRRS connector support a headset with a mic, edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.I have been using a MacBook Pro at work for the past 6 months.It’s possible to get the fingerprint reader working following the instructions here.To enable, follow the instructions in this post below. While WiFi and Bluetooth should be functional, if you see any issues, check Using the AX210 with Linux on the Framework Laptop as 21.04 is running 5.11 out of the box.Go to Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters and download iwlwifi-ty-59.601f3a66.0.tgz for Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX210. Don’t forget to thank the Ubuntu team for their amazing work!.You can then follow the official Ubuntu installation instructions.

Select your USB drive from the list with the arrow keys and hit enter to boot the installer.We’ll be resolving this in a firmware update. The fix is to power off the laptop, unplug AC, wait 35 seconds, and then power on again. Note some users have an issue where they cannot enter the 1 time boot menu after previously booting the machine. Plug the drive into your Framework Laptop, and power it on while tapping F12 to access the one time boot menu.Create a bootable USB drive on another computer.Download Ubuntu or your favorite Ubuntu flavor.If you’re setting up a Framework Laptop DIY Edition for the first time, follow that Quick Start Guide first to set up the hardware.Note that we don’t recommend using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, as there is missing support for WiFi out of the box. Ubuntu 21.04 support for the Framework Laptop is mostly functional, except for the fingerprint reader due to an older version of libfprint.
