Also took 2.5 days from Taiwan to Florida. I pre-signed for it with FedEx, but they still didn’t leave it for me, alas. I was able to get them to drop it off at a pickup location that I could grab the next day though!
It was fun to build, working perfectly so far. And I’m having entirely too much fun with my clear RGB keyboard and macropad!
Right there with you, mine was scheduled for delivery yesterday but is still sat on the opposite side of the country with no updates 
(edit) and then suddenly it was out for delivery, and now it’s here! Fingers crossed you have a similar experience today 
Mine was shipped on March 1, traveled to the Philippines, China, Germany, France and then to the Netherlands where I got it on March 7 
I installed Windows 11 and then Fedora, dual booting on 1 1TB SSD and it is working great!
Small adjustments I made:
In the BIOS I set the audio mode to Linux and the power button LED to low brightness.
In Fedora I set the fractional scaling and touch-pad tap to click before I found the “completion guide” in the installation guide on the Framework guide 
One question: How do you control the backlight on the numpad?
With num lock off, Enter and + keys. If only it was easy to see when num lock is on!
Took me a minute too. I wasn’t even sure it had backlight at first because it wasn’t on from the factory.
Thank you! I didn’t find that help topic!
Hello Batch 1 people,
If you have any issues with your Framework 16 or advice for others, please feel free to post in an existing thread or start a new one. This way more people will see it, benefit from it, or help.
This thread is for deliveries of batch 1 Framework 16s, and since this is winding down, other information will be lost in this 909 post thread. We’ll be closing it in a few days.
Did (nearly) all batch 1 people received their laptop yet?
As far as I can tell, all batch 1 laptops have been shipped out and the delayed macropads were shipped out from New Jersey last week. Batch 1 is pretty much closed out at this point.
Ah, I mistakenly thought this was the “cool club” of batch 1 customers for the Framework16. Is there a group or thread elsewhere for that kind of chatter?
I guess the mods decide what we are allowed to talk about in this thread and will lock as they disagree. Too bad. So much for enjoying ourselves I guess.
I’m sure everyone loves fun, the trick is where the right place to have fun is.
I just figured there was another thread on the forum more suited to this kind of enjoyment. And if there is not, maybe a prompt to create it.
As one who proudly flies the nerd flag, I assumed that as soon as there was discussion of this thread being a “cool kids” club, it would immediately be locked.
What are you talking about? Nerds ARE the “cool kids”.
I like to think that too. Glad that I am not alone!
Didn’t mean to ruffle any sensibilities with the idea of this thread being a “cool club”.
But as for sharing the thought of it… This thread is called a guild by title, so figured that was a club/group/gathering of some sort to a common purpose. In this case, assuming it was a batch #1 customer thing. There are people who were in batch #1, and those who were not. It doesn’t seem to make us any better or worse as humans of course. But there is a little extra cool factor in that, to me at least. – But yeah, if this one is getting locked soon…
Is there any desire to continue as a group of batch one customers or am I misreading the thread here? (happens to the best of us!) Seems like everyone was having a good time talking to each other.
I also think its worth saying that just because you are cool, or in a club, or even in a cool club, doesn’t mean you can’t be in the nerdy type crowd. This is a forum for open schematic field serviceable laptops after all, so figured I was among some of the best.
I for one, have been out of sorts all day after reading your comment.
Kidding! I agree with you that one can be as cool as it gets as well as a so-called nerd, from whatever observer’s perspective. I am plenty comfortable with my nerd status if that’s how others perceive it, and don’t consider myself to be more or less cool because of it. At the same time, I enjoy riffing on it and using it to poke fun at myself. Life is more fun if one does not take oneself too seriously (not a judgment of you or anyone, to be clear, just my point of view).
Maybe you can start a “FW16 Kool Kidz Tricks and Tips” thread for everyone who has already received the machine, regardless of batch. Then our friend @junaruga may be kind enough to turn it into a wiki if enough useful information is collected.
Have a great day!
Glad to find humor.
I think I’m a little less cool for taking the nerd path, well, in the sense that the 70s or 80s meant it maybe. I’m out of touch with the things people call cool now a days too come to think of it haha But, have found my own cool shared with others around this linux stuff, and by extension anything that makes a half decent effort to keep the consumer in the decision process when it comes to devices they have purchased. – Sounds like we agree on the tech side.
I also agree that if you can’t laugh at yourself you can’t find anything else truly funny. It probably also points to some deeper individual troubles… but hey, who doesn’t have those, right? If we think we don’t that’s the first problem. 
Ah, I think I see a point you are making. You think it would be a better Idea for a general thread for the framework16, instead of a thread that was loosely exclusive to batch one people connecting and sharing stories. I figure what you mention is fulfilled by the general framework16 linux forum. I’ve seen some cool threads there for sure.
Welp, thanks for taking the time.
Well that’s not what we meant at all! 
If you want to hang out here and have fun, by all means, please do! We’ll keep it open, it’s OK!
If you have a problem you’d like help with, please post in an existing thread or start a new one if a search doesn’t come up with anything. Your issue is probably not related to Batch 1 and others may benefit from it, so putting it here hides it.
Similarly if you come up with something cool that will benefit everybody, like @James_Croney’s awesome Linux bootloader theme, please share it in its own thread so everyone can see it and benefit. It’ll be hard to find if it gets left here while the other batches ship and everyone moves on.
So go ahead, have fun here. You are in an exclusive club, you’re the first to get the Framework 16. We’ll keep the thread open for fun.
