Just ordered the Deluxe Kit…thanks for the tip. 
I was in batch 4. Mine got stuck in customs for two weeks and then I got sick before it arrived and I’ve been too sick to assemble it. I just finished putting it together, but haven’t installed the OS yet. I’m a little confused because I thought I would have to install the GPU myself, but it seems to have already been installed. Either that or it’s the empty shell and they forgot it. Guess I’ll find out once I decide which distro I’m installing.
they do have the gpu preinstalled, im assuming just because it’s easier to ship that way. having it separate adds more complexity
Yes, I got the OSes installed and the hardware looks ok (I decided to dual boot windows and ubuntu, but I put windows on the primary disk even though I think I will mostly be using Ubuntu and now I kind of regret it, but don’t feel like reinstalling).
Currently in the process of transferring everything off my old system and then I’ll have to figure out what to do with the LED matrix add-ons.
It’s a beautiful computer. I have one tiny quibble, which is that the right spacer corner sticks up the teeeniest bit above the middle section, but I guess I’ll learn to live with it.
Stickering will be saved until I am ready to retire my old laptop.
Hi Jen. Just like you I installed Windows & Linux dual boot with Windows on Primary drive (for testing). Once I had Fedora sorted out with the most important parts, I then completely wiped it all again and re-installed with Fedora now on Primary drive and Windows on secondary. Note that you still have to use F12 and then choose the Linux partition as Windows loads its Boot Manager on the Primary, despite that the OS is now resides on the Secondary. I haven’t looked into it yet, but from what I have seen in the BIOS, you can take it from “Auto” boot selection to static. We should be able to then force it to boot Linux 1st. I am leaving it for later as I still have a lot of work to do in Fedora, having been away from Linux for 15+ years (User level, not an Expert). I installed Winboat which is working very well so far. I have a specialist Windows app that will never be forked to Linux and its working really well..zero issues. The only thing is that Windows is not seeing any USB sticks attached in Winboat, but Network access is flawless.
I’m thinking I’ll probably just shrink the windows partition to half the size and turn the newfound space into an exfat partition for games storage. Then I can have steam load games from the same location no matter what OS I choose.
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The way I did it was to have only the 2230 SSD in the machine and installed windows on that.
Then I installed the 2280 SSD and installed Linux on that. Now as part of the install process Grub probes for other drives that are installed and adds bootable systems to the Grub menu, so you end up with a Windows entry in Grub. Now you don’t need to worry about using F12 when you reboot, just use the arrow keys down to the Windows entry when the Grub menu appears.
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Yes, that is a better method. I just didn’t want to go through the pain of disassembling the FW16 again to use that method. It should be easier then that anyway. Its just the FW16 Bios/Boot Manager doesn’t let me re-order the boot lines for some reason. You can get into the Boot Manager’s edit mode, but then it just won’t let me re-arrange the entries. The arrow keys have no effect to highlight an entry so you can move them up or down in the boot table.
You don’t actually need to physically install the drives separately to have a different bootloader on each one.
Each OS can install its own EFI bootloader onto its own drive’s EFI System Partition. The UEFI firmware then sees two independent boot entries, one for Windows Boot Manager on the Windows drive and one for GRUB (or systemd-boot) on the Linux drive.
I don’t chain-load one OS from the other. I just use F12 select the boot drive/which EFI entry to boot. Each drive is self-contained and bootable on its own.