Arch Linux on the Framework Laptop 16

Arch is running pretty smooth. Even fractional scaling on Wayland works fine.

Noticed only some minor things:

  1. Wifi throughput seems too low: although connection reports >1 gig link, e.g. Steam only reaches ~160 mbps when using local file transfer via 1gig / 10gig LAN backbone
  2. Firefox seems to randomly pick iGPU / dGPU (may also depende on power power profile or if on battery / AC power, need to observe it more)
  3. VRR is not reported correctly. See [ANNOUNCEMENT] Adaptive Sync / Freesync / VRR not working - #3 by Matt_Hartley
  4. PPD profile switching required custom udev rules. I’m guessing these are already present on Ubuntu and Fedora ?

EDIT:
Regarding harware monitoring:

  1. lm_sensors did not detect any sensor, but using ACPI fallback mostly works for temperatures
  2. CPU fan is not reported in ACPI “sensor”
  3. dGPU Fanspeed is not reported by amdgpu correctly: it is always 0 rpm, even in games
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