> Framework are so far the only ones in this market segment who have ever marketed >1080p laptop displays AFAIK.
Dell has sold their Linux-ready "developer edition" XPS 13 with a UHD+ screen for quite a few years now. (They max out at 16GB of RAM, though, unfortunately.)
Dell isn't quite as "open" as something like Framework or System76 (or Star Labs), but they at least sell their Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled, at your option, and claim the hardware is supported properly in Linux.
(I say "claim", because I have the 2018 model, with a fingerprint scanner with no Linux driver.)
The post-Ice Lake models of the XPS series all support 32GB of RAM on the Developer Editions; I have one. Until that point this was Intel's fault because before then they were behind on their memory controllers, nothing Dell could do about it.
Fingerprint reader support for Linux in general has been a sticking point for a very long time, including on the XPS series. (I still fondly remembering the blobs needed for my old ThinkPad's reader to work...) But it's basically the only thing that requires blobs from my knowledge. I don't even bother with it on my stock Fedora install, though it is quite slick in Windows, I admit...
Ah, strange. I'd just looked at Dell's site, but couldn't configure the Developer Edition for anything over 16GB. Probably my fault I couldn't figure it out... plus their order/configure site is terrible.
I had an xps. The battery swells and the charger stopped working, then the replacement charger stopped working. The keyboard and trackpad werent great either
Dell has sold their Linux-ready "developer edition" XPS 13 with a UHD+ screen for quite a few years now. (They max out at 16GB of RAM, though, unfortunately.)
Dell isn't quite as "open" as something like Framework or System76 (or Star Labs), but they at least sell their Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled, at your option, and claim the hardware is supported properly in Linux.
(I say "claim", because I have the 2018 model, with a fingerprint scanner with no Linux driver.)