What about it
Unfortunately they don’t have a version with Coreboot
i hope we get an update soon. if we get coreboot AND a removal of intel ME or amd PSP theres nothing i can think of holding it back.
iirc there was a different thread about intel me where someone mentioned it being baked into the silicon
It is, but as far as I understand, you can disable some of it depending on your coreboot/libreboot setup.
Coreboot is open source, but when you build the rom for your machine, you have to pack in closed source blobs for Intel me, and any other proprietary parts of the chip.
I’m not up to date on current happenings with libreboot, but the goal there was to get it working 100% open source, without closed source blobs.
I would absolutely have got one this year, but they don’t sell to Finland. I probably don’t need a new laptop for a good while, but I still hope these will keep building up and getting more common.
I’ll say it again: I want to buy one of these. They’re awesome (from what I’ve seen). It’d be my Linux laptop. But I’m a Mac guy and after the novelty wore off, it’d go unused. Still, if Apple fucks up their OS enough, this will be my escape hatch.
You might want to experiment with Ubuntu some day. It can be installed to a Mac if you have one lying around, and the default Ubuntu experience is surprisingly Mac-like.
Nice, Ubuntu LTS (22.04) seems to fully work out of the box. Although I’d have expected more distros to work like that (even the officially-supported Fedora needs some extra steps to get everything running and its stability is described as “some risk”).
its stability is described as “some risk”)
I wonder if that just means that Fedora is (almost-but-not-quite) rolling release, and thus is inherently riskier if you need stability? That’s how I interpreted it, but if it’s referring to some kind of Framework-specific issues, then that’s concerning.