My name is Manuel and I´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, I´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)
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’m a professional web applications developer, mainly working as a consultant for various companies in Belgium for 25+ years now. I’ve been using Windows (desktop) and Linux (server) extensively thorough my career. I’ve been seriously disappointed by Microsoft for years and the direction where Windows is currently going (Recall, AI,…) and decided to use Linux as my primary desktop environment. It’s been a while since I’ve tried it, so I’ve 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.
I’ll probably have some questions to ask to the Linux community as I don’t 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 (I’ll stick to Fedora).
Hi all,
I’m a desktop support person by day, and an all around computer geek/nerd by night. I love sourcing things ethically where I can, and I love the idea of upcycling FW components.
At home I daily drive Linux Mint and love it. I gave up having Windows as my primary OS over a decade ago, but still have a couple Windows 11 virtual machines for gaming that my laptop can’t handle. One of the virtual machines is on my laptop for updating firmware on devices and running some annoying software that won’t work in WINE. The other VM is running on a Truenas Scale desktop server I have off to the side. That VM has a dedicated gpu passed through for better graphics performance. I’m hoping to do something similar with the FW 16 I have on order.
For anyone having Linux issues I’ll be doing lots of testing once I get my machine in the next week or two. I’ll of course be installing Linux Mint, but I’ll also test Ubuntu, Pop!OS, Debian, LMDE, and maybe even Fedora. I’d love to help hammer out any issues for the community at large.
I work with cloud infrastructure, automation, cybersecurity and ETL… I spend a lot of time homelabbing and recently started an open source python project for incident response. Maybe it will be useful in a few years.
I have a framework 16 with GPU. Love it so far, can’t wait to see what other mods come out for it.
hey everyone,
i’m an industrial robotics guy by trade, but i dabble in just about everything.
got an amd framework 13 so i could fix my laptop easier and for the fantastic github repository.
I am a Software Release Manager with a background in IT and DevOps. I am also known as the unofficial scorekeeper for the public radio show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me as I’m the creator and maintainer of the Wait Wait Stats Page.
I just got a Framework Laptop 16 and running Fedora + KDE as my primary personal laptop.
Hi, I am Stefan from Germany, Bavaria.
One month ago I ordered the Framework Laptop 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) for Linux.
My favourit distros are EndeavourOS and Arch Linux.
I also have a Pinetab 2 and several Raspberry Pis.
Not exactly new here anymore, but I never did post…
I’m a mechanical engineer by day and a hobbyist/tinkerer with electronics most other times. I enjoy interesting projects of both hardware and software flavors, and especially enjoy when I can combine them.
I have the 16 with the dGPU for such demanding games as Noita and FTL, and I am planning to use it to learn Linux and maybe start finally contributing to (free and) open source projects.
I’m a software engineer from germany using my Framework 16 professionally and privately for everything from coding to gaming and office to live music production. I am dual-booting fedora and AVLinux.
I’m a retired sysadmin, whose Dell XPS developed keyboard trouble. So I checked the YouTube videos on replacing that keyboard, which made it look possible. Was able to order an OEM keyboard through an Amazon 3rd party. Took the XPS apart, only to discover that in the more recent version Dell has taken to gluing mounts for other components onto the back of the keyboard. No way to salvage those, so no way to replace the keyboard unless you’ve got a fresh copy of the mounts Dell glues to the back of it.
In a few days of having it, the Framework 13 AMD is clearly better made. It’s a bit thicker and heavier, but nicer keyboard, trackpad, screen, and of course internal component design. The only hangup so far is that slot 0 won’t recognize RAM. Fortunately I got a single 16G stick with it, which does work fine in slot 1. I’m assuming this will be a warranty part replacement.
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