Just a quick post to say I’ve got my batch 17 Framework 16 last Sunday and I have spent about two days installing debian 12.5 (bookworm) xfce and much it works well. hibernate and suspend are not reliable for me which is a great disappointment but apparently other ones struggle with that as well - hibernation issues on amd-13
Other problems were
- I couldn’t find the included screw driver - fortunately had a T5 from my iFixit screwdriver set
- The instructions don’t mention the peel off plastic cover of the thermal pad for the SSD - thank god for the comments!
- I found the BIOS very confusing - there appear to be two different parts, one entered by F2 and the other by F12. The F2 has the secure boot (needs to be disabled to enable hibernation). The way to boot from USB is to switch off “Auto select” and use last ?? Then it won’t boot from the SSD until you go back and switch on Auto even if there is no USB drive plugged in? Why can’t you just select boot devices in an list like in the good old days!
Otherwise everything else is working well - Bluetooth, WiFi, USB.