Thank you. Glad to be here.
@anon81945988 - hi and thanks for the suggestion. re: ubuntu 24.04 - too late for experimenting - Iāve fallen back to Xubuntu 22.04, using it for daily work and fixing the glitches as I go. Iāll upgrade to 24.04 in a couple years. I suppose Framework doesnāt have a lot of resources to vet operating systems, but IMO it would likely be a good use of time to put a few Ubuntu variants (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.) in a regression test cycle. I believe Framewould learn a lot, resulting in better products. (eg good documentation or maybe a lightweight omakub-style configurator) As a customer of this expensive laptop, I can tell you Iām not wild about being the Guinea Pig, and none of my lessons learned will contribute to improving the Framework product. Finally FYI Iām invested in XFCE tooling and canāt use the generic Ubuntu desktop. 
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Hello, I am Alex. I have 20+ years in as a system admin. I have a long history with messing with stuff I barely understand and have been blessed to do that for a living. I have been waiting on a Framework with a touch screen but I am not sure that is in the pipeline.
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Welcome to the community Dan! Please send me or any of our community moderators a DM if you have questions about the categories 
Welcome to the community Andy, sorry to hear that your experience hasnāt been great so far, please create topics under Framework Laptop 13 - Linux subcategory and people might be able to assist you.
Welcome to the community Alex!!
Hello, I am masters computer engineer and a software engineer. I am looking into getting a framework laptop
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Hello,
Iām Chris Spooner, a technology teacher in New Hampshire, USA I have been teaching for 17 years, have a Masterās in IT, and am now working on my Ed. D., specifically looking at the gender gap in computer science education. I have been following Framework since the initial announcements.
I just purchased my first Framework, a factory second 13, for my FIRST Robotics team (Team 1247 Blood, Sweat, and Gears), and have been very happy so far. I am now looking at a Framework 16 to replace my aging Dell XPS.
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Welcome! Get yourself a Framework 16! I upgraded from a Razerblade Pro 17 and I absolutely love it! 
Iāve never used the Framework 13 but I know a lot of the issues with the Framework 13 have been resolved with the Framework 16 and you get 2 extra expansion ports, bigger screen and a dedicated USB-C from the dGPU on the back if you spec it with a dGPU. 
I honestly canāt get enough of this unit! 
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Hi All, I have just had a frightening thought as I write this: as a social scientist I have been a computer user on a daily basis (statistical analysis, GIS, etc.) for over half a century. Although not a computer scientist, software developer or whatever, I have done a fair bit of programming over the years (initially in Fortran, then BBC Basic / 6502 Assembley Language in the 1980s, and finally Python for the past 20 years). However, the widespread availability of open source applications software has largely negated the need for me to write my own, so I am now more than a little rusty. My current laptop is a Dell Vostro 1310 which I bought in 2009. It owes me nothing, but it is noticeably beginning to struggle, so after following the Framework project for the past few years I have decided to take the plunge and have ordered a FW13 Ryzen 7040 with a 2.8K display. I was tempted to go top of the range, but I suspect this should more than meet my needs. My preferred OS for the past 10 years has been Linux Mint, but if that proves problematic I may switch to Ubuntu with a Cinnamon desktop to get the support.
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welcome to the community!!
Welcome to the community Chris, i love the Robotics team name 
Welcome to the community, I canāt believe you have been using the same laptop for the past 15 year and I hope you can use your Framework Laptop 13 for even longer We have some Linux Mint users here (5% of the Framework laptop 13 users here I believe ) Iām sure people will help you with things!
Thanks Amoun, I still have a fond spot for the old BBC Micro. It was amazingly versatile for its time, although writing scripts to fit into 5.5K was a challenge. But burning machine code onto EPROMs was fun! Happy days.
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Thanks Destroya. Yes, 15 years on the same laptop. The hardware is totally unchanged (apart from replacement batteries). The only change I made was to dump Windows and install Linux. In fairness, I also have a Lenova desktop for heavier uses.
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@anon81945988: 48K? Luxury! Actually the BBC Micro B had 32K RAM (later models more), but some of it was used for the display. There was only 5.5K available for scripts in the āhigh resolutionā 2-colour mode 0 (640x256 pixels), but if you opted for the chunky Teletext mode 7 you had āoceansā of space, although I canāt remember how much (maybe 20K). BBC Basic also allowed you to āchainā scripts, i.e. call one script from another - you just had to hide any data values you wanted to retain in (hopefully) unused parts of the memory reserved for the operating system. Great fun! I am not anticipating any space problems on my forthcoming Framework!
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@anon81945988 Judging by the specs it would seem I did miss out! However, my BBC did everything I needed and even when I upgraded to a IBM-type 385 PC running Windows 95 in the 1990s it somehow felt like a retrogressive step. I guess I am just not a cutting edge type of person!
BBC Micro B first computer here, too. Loved Elite.
I went for the BBC because the latest Spectrum of the time had an awful rubber keyboard and a wobbly RAM pack.
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Just a reminder to please keep this thread on topic. Itās for introductions of new members.
Youāre more than welcome to post in General Topics - Framework Community for other discussions.
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MechE by profession so I got a treat when I opened my DIY kit: even the (apparent) flaw of the top caseās lower right corner was engineered. Ubuntu 24.04 ājust workedā - most of the time. ĀæĀæLinux seems to have got user-friendly??
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