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NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

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34 points CHEF-KOCH | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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necovek ◴[28 Jun 25 18:23 UTC] No.44406919[source]▶
This seems to have nothing similar to what Framework laptop offers.

The main (only?) selling point for NovaCustom is open source coreboot firmware and disabling of Intel ME.

I'd like to see Framework laptop with these features, but those two features do not make a Framework alternative.

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zamalek ◴[28 Jun 25 20:37 UTC] No.44407983[source]▶
I took a poke around their website and it looks like you can purchase a motherboard. It seems this exists somewhere between the mainstream and Framework: a regular laptop with right to repair.

NVIDIA, though? We are still a good few months, or years, away from attempting to seriously use NVIDIA and Linux in the same sentence without looking like a complete idiot.

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1. rpdillon ◴[28 Jun 25 21:29 UTC] No.44408327[source]▶
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. I am a customer of System76 several times over. I just purchased a laptop for my 15-year-old that runs Pop_OS and has an NVIDIA card, and he has been doing both AI on it as well as high-end gaming, all is zero assistance from me in getting things set up. I also worked on self-driving cars and maintained fleets of hundreds of machines with H100s, all running Ubuntu.

I don't feel like a complete idiot, but now you're making me wonder. What's your experience been?

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2. AlotOfReading ◴[28 Jun 25 22:15 UTC] No.44408614[source]▶
My Linux system has a nasty little bug in the card audio ouput system that results in dropped audio when there's too much bus traffic. That's a direct result of Nvidia issues deep in the stack. And of course, Nvidia's automotive division is infuriating to work with.

Good Linux support though.