Framework 13

I bought a new Framework 13 laptop, AMD 7640U version and installed Debian Trixie on it. So far everything works, except Thinkpad’s USB-C dock, which spams GET_CABLE_PROPERTY failed (-5) message to dmesg. But the fight’s not over yet!

I kinda’ missed that this laptop comes with 3:2 screen ratio and I’m not used to HiDPI screens and I wasn’t prepared for that and had to improvise. I fell in love with this ratio though. It reminds me my old 4:3 monitors.

For me the best scaling factor was ~1.3, but I disabled scaling and increased font sizes for terminal and some programs. Fractional scaling crashed imv (imv bug) and didn’t work in XWayland apps which looked blurry. Other than that, it was OK.

Fan is LOUD when it turns on, but it only turns on when I play a game, compile things or do I/O-heavy stuff.

Speaking of games, I bought this laptop, hoping to play Baldur’s Gate 3 on it and I’m glad to say that it plays very well with quasi-high video settings. Vulkan renderer provides a big performance boost, compared to DX11, but has some strange artifacts: randomly shows black boxes. It can be worked around by setting fog details to high. Apparently it’s a known hack/workaround.