Welcome to the community Bryan and congrats for the new title!
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Third day with my AMD Ryzen 7 Framework 13. Very impressed with the fit and finish of this computer. Great keyboard. Excellent screen.
I ordered it and before it arrived the price dropped $100 and new versions of the computer showed up. Oh well. Somebody has to buy things and get caught in the moment that the product line changes. No matter. I am really happy with this machine and so far I am enjoying the support of the Framework community. Asked a question in this community chat and had an answer the next day ā great.
I am Professor of Neuroscience who studies alcohol responses using the fruit fly model system. I have used Macs since the late 80ās. I have always kept a linux box around since about 92 or so as a hobby or sometimes for work. Decided to make the switch in my work. Planning on making this my major laptop but I also have a Macbook Air running Linux Mint that I like.
I am looking forward to using this laptop during my university lectures. Figure that will advertise Framework to the next generation of customers. Donāt mind doing that for a company that is trying so hard to reduce waste.
Looking forward to interacting with all of you now and then.
Best wishes,
Nigel
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Welcome to the community Nigel, itās great to have you here!
Hello there !
Iām an engineer in a small start-up and had the advantage to choose my workās laptop. My choice landed to the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework 16 
I love the idea of an easily reparable and up-gradable laptop.
Iām mainly registering to the community as I have some trouble with my Framework, and while waiting for support response, I thought I could ask the community for things I havenāt yet tried. And because being part of this community could always be helpful to me and others
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Welcome to the community! Hope you can find a solution soon but decide to stay here anyway!
Hello!
Iām Babylion122 of Babylion122 Studios, and I make games!
I currently do not own my own Framework, yet, but Iām saving for one ($480/600, gonna get a factory seconds probably!) my current laptop is an HP ProBook x360 11 G3 EE that I purchased from my old school whilst they were phasing them out, it has a ton of IO, a touchscreen (it flips), and a pretty awesome keyboard and trackpad, however its BIOS is locked down so I had to workaround it by installing Linux to the drive directly using a USB adapter and then putting it back in, and its pretty hard to upgrade with no Ram Slots, so Iāve decided I want a Framework laptop as my next upgrade, and I came here to learn about it! (Also the laptop is kind of slowā¦ Intel Celeron N4100 is a big issue for me, but I still make games on it despite that!). I did recently move to a Steam Deck as my main development device however since my game development software was taking 2 seconds to process one character of text when renaming files.
So, thatās who I am, and where Iām coming from, hope to post more and read more in this community!
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howdy everyone, I am an industrial electrical technician, I make the big factory robots work sometimes, I saw Linus talk about the framework 16 and opted to get it for my second round of collage cus I wanted a laptop that I can fix and modify on the fly and has a number pad, I have been using it for a few months now and I love this thing 
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Welcome to the community! If you feel comfortable sharing, Iām sure you will find many alpha testers for your games here!
Welcome to the community Ricky, happy to hear that you love it!
Hello! I am a stupid computer nerd who sometimes likes to talk about ISAs and linux. I bought the framework laptop a few days ago and it was just shipped out today. I bought it to replace my old and crappy samsung chromebook 3 and I canāt wait for it to arrive!
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Welcome Micheal, I hope itāll be up to your expectations.
Take care
Hello. Electronics Engineer, IT professional and Linux/FOSS enthusiast, first installed linux from a floppy in the 90s, enjoyed many distros but keep coming back to Fedora for fun and Centos/Alma/ucore for servers. Big fan of Nix and Nixos too but these days Iām especially loving the work Jorgeās team are doing with Universal Blue, it seems to be the perfect OS match for a Framework. Received my F16 today, up and running on Universal Blueās Bluefin-dx flawless, fast, super impressive and a great h/w s/w collaboration with Framework. Finger print login for login, sudo etc is a typing saver. Love the āRight to repairā concept and the cause of open software on open hardware! Wish everyone at Framework all the best, hoping for stellar growth in the future and thanks for the great product.
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Hey yāall!
Iām Raf, fresh physics graduate and long time Framework dreamer (since last year when I watched an LTT video)! I got my AMD Framework 13 last week hours before my flight and assembled it right before checking in.
(Funny thing: it has one dead blue pixel but itās so insignificant that I keep on forgetting it exists! I donāt even know where it is right now while Iām typing this!)
Honestly, Iām not that big of an electronics buff so I donāt have much to contribute. I will be lurking around to see what cool projects you people are making, though!
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Hey everyone!
My name is Manuel and IĀ“m a 43 year old IT technican and software developer from Germany.
I consider to buy a Framework Laptop 13 for private use to replace my 10 year old Sony Vaio 16" laptop.
The idea behind a Framework laptop to be able to switch components and optical parts by myself drives me to have a closer look.
To save money, IĀ“m thinking about buying a Factory Seconds Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (i7-1165G7) Kit, together with 16GB RAM, Intel WiFi and 250GB WD Black SSD.
OS will be Linux (one of those: Bluefin, Debian, Fedora)
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welcome to the community! canāt wait to read your first impressions/review, hope you like it!
welcome to the community and thank you so much for your kind words!
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Hey Manuel, welcome to the community! We have a few threads about the Factory seconds kits in the forums, please check them and let us know if you have any questions! this is a great place for Linux questions as well, hope you have a great time!
i will definitely talk about my thoughts on the discord (and maybe the forums)
Hi 
,
Iām a professional web applications developer, mainly working as a consultant for various companies in Belgium for 25+ years now. Iāve been using Windows (desktop) and Linux (server) extensively thorough my career. Iāve been seriously disappointed by Microsoft for years and the direction where Windows is currently going (Recall, AI,ā¦) and decided to use Linux as my primary desktop environment. Itās been a while since Iāve tried it, so Iāve installed Debian and Fedora on my current laptop (Lenovo X1 10th gen). I have mixed feelings about the hardware support and then I decided to order the new framework 13 to have a 100% hardware compatible machine.
Iāll probably have some questions to ask to the Linux community as I donāt have as much experience on the desktop side than on the server side. My main concern at the moment is to ensure that every piece of hardware is correctly configured and running by the distro (Iāll stick to Fedora).
Have a nice day!
Fabian
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