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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Tldr about halfway through but there's no word on updating the BIOS on Linux without having a bootable Windows somewhere (dual-boot, external SSD), right?

[–] zarkony 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the 13, but on the 16 you can update via USB, no OS required. Kind of annoying, but it works.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Looks like that applies to all 13" models as well. Their knowledge base does not list a BIOS update for this model yet, but there is a post about it on their forum, and the Linux instructions for that are the same as that of the other Framework models.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh, interesting, didn't even know this was a thing, cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I can confirm this. I recently updated the bios for a support request, and I've never had windows installed on it (except for a VM)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

They've been pretty good about lvfs, though the updates tend to sit in testing for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I thought they used lvfs? Edit: seems like that's still a work in progress