Framework Laptop report
Installed BlendOS v3 Gnome Edition on my Framework 13 (i5).
It normally runs PopOS, but I decided to give blend OS a try because of the Android support.
I burned the ISO to a Kioxia USB3 flash drive in PopOS using balencia etcher and rebooted into the installer without issues. I also was able to install without issue, and most things work.
The WiFi works out of box, and the screen brightness controls, web camera, etc. work as well.
There is a problem with the touch pad, however, which took me some time to figure out.
Basically, the "click" to click (i.e. where you need to physically push down on the touch pad and move it) doesn't work at all - and since the default setting of tap-to-click is "off", there was no way for me to click anything. Eventually I managed to bring up the gnome settings app using the keyboard and navigate to turn tap-to-click on. I had do do this in the installer, and then again after rebooting into the installed system, but after that it seems to work well.
Since there is no fractional scaling by details, the objects on the screen are either very small (by default at 100%), or very large if I set to 200%. (In pop OS I usually use 150%) I haven't tried to use the built in Goodix fingerprint sensor.
I don't see an obvious place to adjust the performance settings, but perhaps that is just my unfamiliarity with Arch.
I also noticed another issue; The Aurora store asked if I wanted to update. After I let it update, it stopped working, so I had to delete it and re-install the old version. (I doubt this is Framework specific, though).
I have other questions, however I will search the docs a bit more first.
I hope this post is helpful to anyone considering a Framework purchase, or to the BlendOS Devs.
Let me know if there are any other details I could provide that would be useful.
Since there is no fractional scaling by details, the objects on the screen are either very small (by default at 100%), or very large if I set to 200%. (In pop OS I usually use 150%) I haven't tried to use the built in Goodix fingerprint sensor.
I don't see an obvious place to adjust the performance settings, but perhaps that is just my unfamiliarity with Arch.
I also noticed another issue; The Aurora store asked if I wanted to update. After I let it update, it stopped working, so I had to delete it and re-install the old version. (I doubt this is Framework specific, though).
I have other questions, however I will search the docs a bit more first.
I hope this post is helpful to anyone considering a Framework purchase, or to the BlendOS Devs.
Let me know if there are any other details I could provide that would be useful.
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once we fix v4 you can try that too
as for preformance settings they're probably in there via a CLI but you can't edit anything outside of
/etc or ~ anyway
you can consult the archwiki as wellSolution
try v4 😄 https://blendos.co/download
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