Installing Bluefin onto a Framework Laptop 13 AMD/Intel

Framework Laptops
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  1. Start by downloading the Framework Laptop image of Project Bluefin. Make sure you select Intel or AMD depending on the mainboard in your device:

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  1. Create a USB stick using Fedora Media Writer (Windows or Mac or Linux)
  • Insert your USB drive (8GB or larger). Note that it will be reformatted, so make sure you are ok with erasing any data that is on it.
  • After installing Fedora Media Writer, run it. Choose Select .iso file, browse to bluefin-gts.iso and select it.
  • Click the Write button.
  • Once the USB drive creation is complete, you can click Finish, close Fedora Media Writer, eject your USB drive.
  1. Booting to the Bluefin USB
  • Insert the USB drive into your powered off Framework Laptop 13, and then power on. If you have an existing OS installed on the Storage drive in your laptop, immediately after the power light comes on begin rapidly tapping (continuously ) the F12 key - you must begin tapping well before you see the Framework logo.
  • Select Linpus lite (General UDisk) with your arrow keys. Enter key.
  • Next select Install Bluefin. Hit the enter key.
  • Select the keyboard language you’d like to use. On the next screen, click on the Installation Destination button to choose the disk.
  • If there is an OS already installed on the target drive, you’ll need to follow the guided steps to delete the existing partitions.
  • Click Finish Installation and then reboot into your new Bluefin install!

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An additional note on Framework Laptop 13 (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1)

While it will work out of the box, if you are on kernel 6.10.10, you will notice two things:

  • Your cursor seems to be missing. Motion your touchpad to the left, it will appear. If you wish to remain on gts or stable, you can simply disable the ghost display.

Ghost display:

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Disabled ghost display:

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  • If you are on Framework Laptop 13 (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1) and wish to get the best experience with VRR and avoiding the ghost display, open a terminal and run ujust --choose then select rebase-helper.

  • Select rebase and then arrow down to latest. Let the rebase happen.

  • systemctl reboot when complete. This is going to get you onto a newer kernel that is going to play better with the 2.8k display.

  • If you wish to enable GNOME VRR, ujust --choose, select toggle-gnome-vrr, select enable and when complete you can log off and log back in. Go to Settings, Displays, you will see it available under Refresh Rate.

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Just a heads-up, the numbering here goes from 1 to 3 (skips 2). Also, it may be helpful to have a separate section for people who already have an atomic build and just want to rebase to the framework laptop image. The Bazzite installation page already provides such instruction, by the way, so for consistency it may be a good idea to do the same for Bazzite and Aurora.

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As far as I know, there is no need for the “Framework image” anymore, everything is implemented in the “main ISOs”.

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As things can shift with new hardware in the future, we may see this stick around. But I’ll sync with Jorge to determine where this lands.

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Any tips or guides on setting up the fingerprint sensor for logging in to the OS? For applications assuming you have to configure pam like in ubuntu?

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It works out of the box for me, I’m using Core Ultra.

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Probably another AMD oddity for me to figure out haha.

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what kind of issues you have. It should be available to enable right out of the box.

Which FW13 you have? I think there were some problems with the fingerprint sensors on the earlier FW13 models, where the firmware needed to be updated to get the sensor to register.

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i figured it out, it’s working fine. Sorry I am not used to fedora and I’m just understanding everything now. Researched rpm-ostree and fedora silverblue directly, now it’s all making sense. I’m too used to ubuntu from the past and none of the super cool things this OS does. Appreciate you following up.

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Added additional details for the 2.8k display for Framework 13 with Intel Ultra 7 155H.

Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the post.

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But both Fedora 40 and 41 are on Kernel 6.11, for a while, so it is already fixed.

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We haven’t published 6.11 kernels in our stable channels yet, those will be coming today.