I assembled my new Framework laptop this morning! I was SUPER nervous about assembling a laptop, but they have great video and written instructions on their website, and it booted into bios with no issue! I'm really excited about having a laptop that is designed to be repairable, and I hope it lasts me for a LONG time
Turns out that the slowest part of this process is actually waiting for my rural internet to download the latest version of Ubuntu...
Thanks for the recommendations, fediverse.