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I am currently using the DIY version running Ubuntu.

I absolutely love this laptop. It had been awhile since I built a computer (let alone a laptop). The DIY kit instructions and the construction of the machine itself are very well thought out.

I am very excited for a future where we can measure the lifespan of our personal electronics in decades rather than months.

Congrats to the Framework team!

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Same here. I never... NEVER do first run of anything, but I firmly believed in the business model, rolled the dice, and received my $1200 i7 DIY kit. Sold my 3 month old XPS-13 and haven't looked back. Deep sleep and fingerprint reader were the only things that didn't work out of the box, and the implementation (if you take a look at the forum) is trivial. I would definitely recommend it to folks.

Is this https://community.frame.work/t/linux-deep-sleep/2491 the sleep fix? If not, can you link it?

Yep. Assuming you're using GRUB, then that last post is the recommended solution.

Likewise. I'm running Pop!_OS on mine. When I pre-ordered, I figured there was a 50/50 chance the thing would even ship. But it shipped exactly when they said it would, and it's fantastic. I'm very impressed with Framework so far.

I also was skeptical though I had a feeling after chatting with some of the team that they would deliver. I didn't expect the level of polish in terms of customer experience--e.g., packaging, instructions, etc. Like you, I am also very impressed with Framework. It's actually amazing given how early in the company life they are.

How do you deal with the screen resolution? Do you have to run it at 1.5x? And, if so, what's the fractional scaling experience like?

I personally dig the resolution. I run at 200% and have the fractional scaling toggled off. It works for me but I am primarily editing text files. If you're doing anything graphically intensive, I don't really have any anecdata.

Personally I'm currently running at 1x and debating whether or not I need to scale things at something like 1.25 instead. 2x is a total nonstarter for me personally.

It's easy enough to manually configure scaling for the various things that are just browsers and I may do that, or use something like GDK_DPI_SCALE. Frankly, "browser-ish" things and the Terminal cover a very large fraction of what I use the thing for.

Fractional scaling is easy to just turn on in the Display settings but I don't love the results and don't want to really deal with what if anything turning it on will do to Steam/ScummVM/whatever. I haven't really played with it much, though.

I find the 3000x2000 mode mentioned here works well: https://community.frame.work/t/using-elementary-os-on-the-fr...

I'm running gnome 40 on arch/Wayland and ended up settling on 2x window scaling with .75 text scaling along with the compact materia theme. This is effectively 1.5x window scaling, but 1.5x fractional scaling alone is blurry on gnome in non gnome apps. The other alternative I tried was 1x window scaling with 1.5x text scaling, but the UI feels more cluttered/cramped.

What's the build quality like?

Exceptional. My work machine is a Lenovo X1 and IMO the Framework approaches that machine in build quality and fit/finish while being infinitely more user serviceable. It's really impressive.

How's the battery life?

Just okay. With tuning I'm at 8-ish hours casual browsing with low screen brightness. IIRC this puts it in the same league as the XPS 13 but miles behind an X1 or MacBook.

what about the fans? Many reviews online say that the fans spins frequently and are a bit loud. Also, did you find any issue on the output of dmesg?

I've had little to no fan noise unless I'm deliberately driving the machine hard (i.e. building a kernel). But if they do spin all the way up it's a jet engine.

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