I removed my RAM, but that was months ago.
I’m still not certain what I’m going to use it for, but excited about the FW 12. Also Batch 5, sage i5. I’m supplying my own power supply, 32GB RAM and 1TB M.2 2230 NVME drive. My FW 13 which is my road warrior is dual boot, since I do a lot of Windows admin work, but thinking I’ll go full Linux on the FW 12. Probably stick to Fedora, since it’s grown on me over the past year.
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If you’re leaning fedora, and have admin experience, you might like the atomics.
Silverblue is great with a little setup. Aurora or Bluefin if you want batteries included. Don’t fall into the trap of layering a lot of stuff into the image. I’ve only need to add tailscale to the host.
Being in DevOps, of course I had to automate it with ansible playbooks for both the host and toolbox image with all my usual stuff. Makes it super easy to rebuild the toolbox on a newer fedora image.
Learning how to roll up flatpak-spawn commands means my terminal is hardly ever on the host, and I can do everything except update the silverblue image from the toolbox. I haven’t even needed homebrew.
The atomics are pitched as noob distros, as they’re really hard to break, but it takes some experience to get the most out of them. And you’ll always have a bootable system.
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Wish I could get an immutable NixOS… Sigh…
What are batteries?
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Hello fellow kids fivers. I’m excited for my FW 12. It’s my first new personal laptop in 5 years, and I’ve been using a Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 for that time to complement a rather beefy gaming rig and a very expensive MacBook 16 from my employer.
I picked up a Crucial P310 2 TB lightly used for about $120 and a 48 GB SODIMM of the recommended/tested Crucial memory for about $100. I’ve got plenty of USB-PD chargers laying around, so no new acquisition in that area.
I’m intending to try out Bluefin on it. I’ve grown really accustomed to ChromeOS, or, really, not really having to admin a system beyond rebooting it once in awhile. I’ve not used Linux regularly on a workstation for more than a decade except one desktop for about a year a couple of years ago for a work project. Looking forward to coming back to it and seeing how it’s changed and matured. I’m of course on Linux servers a ton for work and use WSL a bit for little bits of development on my Windows gaming rig and “Linux mode” Debian on my Chromebook!
Looking forward to getting that email!
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Finally ordered my ram/SSD, 48gb Crucial ram and WD black SN770M 1tb…both of which are probably mildly excessive, but I intend for this laptop to serve for a very long time.
my FW12 will also be my first Linux machine…or second, depending on how you count it, I set up my spare HD on my old panasonic toughbook with…ubuntu I think? to mess around with it a bit, but I haven’t gotten far…and I might have to format it and start over because it insists on a 6 digit PIN, and it’s been long enough I don’t remember it…(yes, I know it’s more ‘secure’, no, I don’t care, ‘security’ that protects my computer from actually being used for its intended purpose can go jump in a lake. that machine doesn’t have anything to protect anyway.)
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Another i3 Sage, BYO storage and memory, nice.
I really wanted July to happen. But after seeing the slow start it was pretty obvious it wasn’t.
At least it’ll be on the August credit card statement now.
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yeah, I expected the delay, as much as I want my shiny new toy five months ago when I found out it was going to exist, I don’t need it yet, technically I’d be fine if it didn’t show up til next july…I would be rather upset if it delayed that long, but I’d be fine 
They better ship Batch 5 by the end of August like they’re saying. I legitimately have 2 lined pages left in my work notebook, and trying to make it last until my Framework arrives is a stretch 
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Has ther been a Monday update yet?
Hoping to use it as my work tablet/laptop at the school. FW 12, bubble gum i5. Getting the same power supply. 16GB RAM, 500GB M.2 2230 NVME drive. Three different usb-c colors.
I’m going to try to see if I could work with Linux at the school… if not I’ll have to go back to Windows which I do not prefer.
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I think we will get our preparing to ship emails next week! Coming soon!
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Just got my preparing to ship email! Getting excited!
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Just got my notice too. Since this one is primarily for schoolwork for little one, and she’s helping put it together, which Linux recs do we have for touchscreen?
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Seems fedora with KDE is shaping up to be a good choice. I’ll be using arch+windows since I’m a masochist but there’s plenty of better options.
edit: take a look at this thread: Which Linux is fitting for me?