That’s good. Keeps them out of the landfills and keeps your pocket healthy.
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Batch 10 club member here.
Ordered Bubblegum color with the i5 CPU. I plan to install both 16-24GB of Crucial DDR5 RAM and a 2TB Crucial P310 SSD whenever it gets close to shipping. The last thing I want happening is ordering the components and having them fail past the return window.
Already have a 65watt Anker wall charger, I imagine thats more than enough for the thing. Want to keep the charger compact so it doesn’t take up space in my bag when travelling.
Originally I went with the i3. I’ve done my productivity/game dev workflow using a 5th gen i5 on a MacBook Air running Linux Mint just fine, but I figured the extra cores from the i5 would help out with some multitasking, occasional OBS recordings, and light gaming.
Mostly using this machine for writing, coding, and work on my game projects outside of my bedroom/desktop setup. The change of scenery helps me focus on my work.
(Also, not going to lie. The darn thing is cute, I can’t say I’ve seen a fun laptop like this in a while.)
My OS of choice is Linux Mint, but I might try out Fedora KDE Plasma. I can’t wait to get mine!
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I’m tempted to order an expansion card to try other distros 
I will keep fedora KDE as my production distro but I want to try Zorin and CachyOS
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i got the laptop for the expansion cards mainly because of the old systems i interface on at my highschools net lab. (specifically serial). But i am a little concerned does linux require a custom driver if i make a custom expansion card for a serial adapter?
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Is that allowed on a Bubblegum machine, shouldn’t it be Sage to run Mint? 
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It is USB-C at the end. The usb-serial-adapters I have in use are supported out of the box by the Linux -kernels I use.
I think it’s like all external devices: you’ll have to read tests if the chip is supported or simply try
It should, ATM i am working on an RPI 2040 powered USB Serial adapter module since I need serial for PLC comminucation (MODBUS RTU) and well looking to make it an adapter card. Through there are a lot of USB to serial chips that work out of the box depending on what serial protocol you need to run.
Batch 10 here we come!
Going to be my ipad air 2019 replacement.
I3 in Sage. I really wanted bubblegum, but it is very flashy for when im on the train.
Ram and ssds are gonna be ordered later or reused (but i dont have any ddr5 stuff yet)
Nixos with kde plasma, will be my first choice.
I’m Batch 10 too- i3, 16GB ram, 500GB NVMe
super excited- do the batch 10s come Q3 2025 or 2026?
This will be my first Linux machine ever! Ham radio was the thing that finally got me. The hobby is very supportive of open source. Linux will actually open some doors I can’t open with my Mac currently.
The 2-in-1 format was the main draw. I want a small footprint for digital portable radio operating, something I can set up in a tent for looking at/scrolling plans when I’m soldering or whatever, and a tablet-like experience for reading and marking up .pdfs (there’s a lot of amateur radio knowledge in .pdfs).
I am concerned about the plastic cracking issue. I’m on deck for a sage i5 but will duck out for a later batch if that doesn’t seem to get resolved soon.
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2025 of course.
That’s very cool, I have pretty regular urges to go into ham radio, but so far other things have occupied my time. Do post about it when you set it up! Although I’m also not very happy about that issue… and maybe a little relieved I decided to go to the back of the queue.
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Will do. It’s a pretty fun time to get into the hobby, with new modern makers putting their spin on an old hobby. Zero Retries offers a good peek into that side of things if anyone’s curious, and this post describes those new types of hams: Zero Retries 0201 - by Steve Stroh N8GNJ - Zero Retries
I expect FW12 will be attractive to our “Parks on the Air” crowd and other mobile operators, so hopefully we get more common around here! As we say on air, 73!
K3LOE
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thats a relief, i suspected as much but wasnt 100% sure
Try Arch/Artix
Batch 10 ordered a couple of days ago in sage same as most planning to order components when i hear its being shipped (16gb crucial 5600, 512gb wd sn530) am hoping to put arch + hyprland on it (same as my Framework 16), but depending on how straightforward it is to set up touch stuff might fall back to Fedora with KDE Plasma (or maybe openbox)
Either way its gonna be a nice upgrade from the Mirabook + galaxy note 20 + termux that i use as my commute(train) setup
Hello fellow batch 10 people!
I went with a sage i5 with 32gb ram and 1tb ram after my current laptop (not a framework) got a bit too wet after getting rained on. That one still works but the only usb c port has stopped working and the screen shows the result of the water with some brighter spots and bit of flickering so an upgrade to a more fixable device was in order. I’m very excited about the sage color, that was like the main selling point over a FW13 for me. But being able to write on it with a pen will be nice in the few occasions I use it (the current one is also a convertable).
Mainly gonna use it for note taking in lectures and coding and some drawing when I find the time.
Paid my deposit today. I’m very excited for this, it’ll be a little project to try daily driving Linux for the first time. I work as a software developer and use it pretty often at work and for personal projects, but only via SSH/WSL.
I intend to use it for web browsing, working on my projects, note-taking, but I will definitely be gaming on it too. There’s a lot of games that can probably run on the F12 no problem but I will also use Steam Remote Play :>
I got the i5-1334U DIY Edition in Sage. I’ll source the memory and SSD later when it ships, but my current pick is a 48GB Crucial stick and a 1TB Kingston SSD. I added the default power brick to my order but I might go with something else – still looking at my options.
I’m hoping someone finds a good sleeve for it by the time it gets here.
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Just paid my deposit yesterday, and I’m super excited for my new lavender lad (or perhaps ladette?) to arrive. I spent a little more than I had planned to, but a friend who knows more about hardware than me strongly suggested I go for the i5 and 16GB of memory, and I trust him not to lead me astray. While I know Linux Mint is having some trouble recognizing the touchscreen and tablet modes, I still plan to run with it since I’m somewhat familiar with Mint. Besides, it’s not like I’m out any money if I switch Linux distros at any point, so I feel safe starting with Mint and possibly trying something else down the line if I need to. I also have time to see if Mint “catches up” with other distros in the touchscreen/tablet area, as I’m not really worried about using those functionalities until I can nab a stylus for drawing.
All in all, I’m really happy with what I’m getting, and I almost can’t wait to meet the new laptop.
Mint is an nice linux distro in all honesty, I am still on the fence what distro i am going to use. (or linux at all, i still have half a mind to install windows 10 LTSC) but yeah experimenting around is always good.
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