Hey Caitlyn , welcome to the community!
Hi John, welcome to the community! Please share photos with your Framework laptop from different parts of the world with us!
Hiya. Jan, also addressable as halfbyte on the internets, software developer and digital artist (mostly music) from Hamburg, Germany.
Couldnāt resist getting an AMD FW13 and so far I am quite happy with it. I love the idea of Framework and I just hope they will be around for a long time so that this can be my laptop for the next, dunno, 15 years or so. That would be awesome.
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Welcome to the community Jan! Hope you decide to share your digital art with us as well!
Hi,
Iām Gavin - a software engineer in the UK. Iāve had a couple of Windows laptops in the past but used a 2015 vintage MacBook Pro 15 for almost a decade (obvs!) - I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I like the experience (itās a great laptop) but donāt like the closed Apple ecosystem (if I could replace its battery and SSD I wouldnāt need a new laptop!) so when I heard about Framework (via a combination of YouTube and word-of-mouth) I knew itās what I would get next. Iām looking forward to seeing whether a fully Linux laptop is ready for the mainstream (i.e. the rest of my family, currently on Windows).
Iāve got a Fairphone 4 which is similarly DIY repairable which should have a good chance of outliving previous phones (~3 years each) ā¦ itās not as good as non-DIY phones but itās easily good enough for my needs and its long life is a massive plus point. My guess is Iāll feel the same about the Framework :shrug:
Batch 10 canāt come soon enough!
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Hi Gavin, welcome to the community!
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I didnāt bother ordering the 180W PSU when I put my laptop order in (IIRC it was over Ā£150 which I found hard to stomach).
But now I will probably get one ā¦ but it apparently canāt be added to my existing order (for āreasonsā) so Iād have to cancel and re-order. Who knows when Iād get a laptop if I did that!? As a side-effect that means itāll cost me Ā£100 (plus p&p?) rather than the Ā£80 they cost when bought with a laptop 
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Hi,
Iām Ivan, a Computer Science student from the US, and a hobby musician, among other things. Iāve been a Linux user, and open-source enthusiast, for almost nine years. Iāve been hearing about Framework from several people in the community since its founding, usually with great excitement that a laptop exists where you can replace things like the CPU, and the keyboard! So when my Purism Librem 14 started having issues that I couldnāt easily diagnose, fix, or even get fixed, I decided to go ahead and order a Laptop 13 DIY edition with AMD. I hope that, with all this repairability, it will last me a long time.
Iām here primarily to get help with some of the issues Iāve been having (which I will probably post about later, if I canāt solve them myself), but this seems like a nice community to be in, in general.
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Welcome to the community Ivan! I might be a little bit biased but I think itās a great community we have here 
folks like to help other community members with issues. Hope you enjoy your stay here!
Been in Linux community since 2006, just was looking for something different, and found it.
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Welcome to the community Robb!
Hi all! Iām a software engineer and eager FW16 anticipant (batch 14) who canāt wait to install NixOS on a modular laptop 
. I truly think Framework is the most interesting consumer electronics company right now for what theyāve achieved.
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Welcome to our community!!
Hello!
My name is Jan Jansen and I am a technical instructor and trainer from Germany!
I just received my FW13 AMD R5 laptop!
Got it equipped with 16GB DDR5 5600 and a WD SN770 500Gig.
Iam rocking Fedora 39 Silverblue.
So far i am very happy with the first day experience.
My interests range from anything technology to open source and gaming on XBox and in Paper Magic and Exit games.
When I would have more time I would like to dip my toes into programming and design of GTK apps. But with two little children there is not much of that currently.
Thanks so far Framework for a great experience and a lot of years to come for this journey!
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Welcome to the community Jan! Iām happy to hear that you enjoy using your Framework Laptop!
Hi everyone!
Iām Thorsten from Hamburg, Germany. Iām working in the IT department of a media company here in Hamburg.
My Framework 13 AMD 7840 arrived last week. Itās driving 64 GB of Kingston Fury RAM, 2 TB WD Black SN850X an two additional 1 TB storage expansion cards. On my desk at home Iām running an older 38" ultrawide display from Dell, the latop is connected via a WavLink USB-hub.
Iāve used Windows desktops at home for many years (and will still have to use it at work in the future). My goal is to ditch Windows completely at home. So far I was using an older computer with PopOS from time to time (so, just little experience with Linux desktops so far). Iām still not sure, which distro I should use. So the next days or weeks there will be a lot of testing to figure out what will be the best daily driver for me. Iām especially interested in Fedoraās atomic spins.
At the moment Iāve installed Fedora workstation 39 on my Framework laptop. It mostly seems to run fine. Some quirks so far: Randomly the laptop loses connection to the external monitor (or the USB hub) for a few seconds. And one of the storage expansion cards sometimes disappears from the os after shutting down the laptop. Getting it out of the slot and putting it back in helps (hope that this is not a hardware problem with one of the USB ports).
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Hi Thorsten, welcome to the community! We have a rather large Linux community here and Iām sure they will be happy to help you choose the perfect Linux distro!
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Greetings everyone! 
Iām a music producer, coder from 
and one with (too) many interests, hobbies and ideas.
A couple of years a friend of mine told me about the Framework laptops and their repair- and upgradability which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for since the plastic āhooksā holding the input cover of my āsecond ownā laptop in 2015 broke during my repair attempt leaving a gap of a half centimeter below the edges.
After realizing that purchasing a big heavy gaming computer with the thought of upgradability some years ago wasnāt a good idea as itās bulky and difficult to carry (next to the already high power consumption) I wanted to have a laptop that would last for several years (or more) and could be upgraded or repaired without having to worry about cheap materials intended to make it a one-way-only product.
Iām convinced that Framework Laptops are the foundation of modern sustainable and long-lasting computers and I canāt wait to use my own once all my still missing parts have arrived. 
Kind regards
BackslashN 
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Hi BackslashN, welcome to the community!!
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Hey @TeeJay you should either open a support ticket for this (youāve installed a fully-supported distro and your machine is about as new as it can be) or at least get a thread rolling on the forum to crowd-source some experiential data.
In my experience as a long-term linux devotee, devices that disappear after being powered offāparticularly in conjunction with a mainstream distroāfall into the domain of unexpected behavior. Devices that fail to return to active state after suspend or hibernate are within the range of expected quirky behaviours although I donāt recall the Framework storage modules being tarred with that particular brush.
Dino