Framework12Laptop: My-So-F*cking-Cute-Linux-Laptop

Shipment and Delivery

Thursday, 8/14/25 Taiwan to Tuesday, 8/12/25 USA

Build and Install

Framework Laptop 12 (13th Gen Intel® Core™) DIY Edition Quick Start Guide

• i5, 500 GB, 48 GB Ram

Ubuntu 25.04 Installation on the Framework Laptop 12 

• Secure Boot explained
• ISO > Windows > Rufus > FW12 > Ubuntu

WTF

The HDMI expansion card was easy to insert but difficult to remove by sliding off. It was so tight that I nearly ripped off my thumbnail. After the install the heat of the laptop must have softened things up and all expansion cards were ok to slide on and off.

Extras

I slapped on stickers and then some from friends.

LLM

• ollama > gpt-oss:latest 20b 
• $ollama run gpt-oss --verbose "<your prompt>" | tee -a ChatLog.txt

The fans go on and the thinking is slow (eval rate 1.5 tokens per second) for MoE gpt-oss so I keep that on a separate tmux window. Just $tail ChatLog.txt for progress, ha!

Software

ollama

:r! cat /var/log/apt/history.log|grep '^CommandLine'|sort -u

cheese curl dateutils ffmpeg fzf gpaste pandoc tmux tree ugrep vim w3m xmlstarlet

more to come...