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Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 14 points 3 months ago (10 children)

My anecdotal experience - my Asus gaming laptop died about 6 months ago. with a lot of trouble shooting, I determined it was most likely the mobo. I decided to go with a framework, and was able to bring over my hard drive and ram, saving me like $400.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    You also likely don't need to reinstall/resetup everything, which is absolutely painful.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Getting the framework driver's was painful. I needed to download them over wifi, but wifi wasn't working because it needed the driver. okay, download on another computer and install via USB, nope. USB drivers aren't working either. I ended up spotting my hard drive into my desktop, downloading the drivers that way, and then moving it back to the framework laptop to install.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I've literally never had a computer need drivers to make basic USB work in the past probably 20 years. I had a bleeding edge ai 350 framework right even when it came out. Linux was a little flaky with my sound but everything else worked. Same in Windows. Maybe I needed Wi-Fi drivers, don't recall, but I know USB worked without any. I'm really curious how you needed USB drivers of all things genuinely. I mean you installed the OS presumably from a thumb drive so how would that not work in the same os after installing? Lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It may be a separate issue to drivers, because I have this other issue where after waking up from sleep, I have to either reboot or physically remove the USB port and plug it back in to make the USB work. I've disabled "allow windows to put this device to sleep" for every single USB titled thing in device manager, so I'm not sure what the issue is. I plan on installing a small linux partition at some point to play around and see if I like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    If you really moved the hard drive from one laptop to another without reinstalling the OS, that's probably going to cause issues. It'll "work" seemingly but it's gonna be messy like this. You're going to spend more time hunting weird shit than you would just doing a reinstall imo.

    I'd backup what you need to and start over or you're probably going to keep having strange issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If you have a desktop with internet connection, maybe a USB stick would suffice?

    There is also USB tethering from a phone that could work.

    I am not defending framework. They should try to do better (maybe windows is the bottleneck? not sure). Just offering solutions to people who might encounter this problem later.

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