I have 1 major gripe on I/O but as far as the frame itself I would encourage Purism to consider: I’ve found myself in 3 scenarios over the past year or so where I needed to plug in via ethernet - each time it feels comical but it’s been great knowing that port is there. The I/O available for the most part (see Ugly) has been great. The Laptop chasis and frame - It’ physically holding up just like the big boys! Although I protect my laptop appropriately, I travel and move around a ton with it and its still very sturdy with only wear showing on the keyboard keys. Kudos Purism team on that one, you got more work to do but you fixed an issue that was a nuisance to early adapters. Purism updated the EC - I can’t tell you how critical this was as an end user, but it made a big impact for me and usability of my L14! All of you receiving your laptop with this standard are fortunate, one of the most annoying experiences of using this laptop was the vacuum like sounds of fans going full blast at random times for no reason to the point that it made it unbearable to use. Instead of going into a boring amount of detail of what the experience has been I am going to break it down the Good, Bad, Ugly, and some final thoughts on Librem and the future. As someone who embraces being a casual Linux user (primarily ElementaryOS) I thought my experiences were worth documenting in a post to provide insight to others in similar situations - you can read here.

Back in early May 2021 I was one of the first to receive a Librem 14.

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