For the last decade (honestly, closer to two), we’ve been “renting” our laptops. Sealed chassis, glued-in batteries, soldered RAM, integrated SSDs, and the cursed dongle life — all dressed up as “thin and light” progress while quietly turning perfectly good machines into short-life e-waste the moment one part fails. In this video I dig into Framework, the company trying to be the counter-culture option: laptops designed to be opened, repaired, and upgraded by actual humans, with everything from hinges and ribbon cables to modular side-port expansion cards you can swap to suit your workflow. I also address the stuff people argue about: the Framework “tax” (you will pay more than a similarly specced Dell/HP), early-gen polish issues like battery life/fan noise/support speed, and the political/community drama from last year — which I see as a storm in a teacup, but still a thing they needed to learn from. The big reason I’m finally properly interested though? They’ve at last committed to official Linux support: the Framework Laptop 13 Pro is Linux-certified and can ship with Ubuntu pre-installed, with work also going into Fedora, Bazzite (what I run), NixOS, CachyOS, Linux Mint and more. On top of that, the new 13 Pro tackles a bunch of prior-gen pain: CNC aluminium chassis, a much bigger battery claim (up to 20 hours, yeah alright mate), LPCAMM2 memory support, and a 13.5-inch 120Hz 3:2 matte touchscreen aimed at real productivity. I’m still watching with my cynicism spider-sense, but for once it feels like the tide might actually be turning toward consumer rights and away from corporate horse crap.