Used fedora until recently and the fan was fine, for long hours(300+ total) and crashes were super super rare.
However win11, fan never spins, gets super hot and laggy with 20fps max and crash often.
whatsa goin on 
Hello, welcome to the forums! Can you please precise your model with CPU and GPU details ? It would help me try to help you.
On the FW16, the fan curve is fixed (by the motherboard I believe, as the OS cannot control them). On the FW 13, you also can’t change the fan from the OS, but you can flash the controller directly if you are comfortable with that (source: Fan Control). However, I found this software under linux that can change the fan curve dynamically from the OS by talking to the EC controller directly: GitHub - TamtamHero/fw-fanctrl: A simple systemd service to better control Framework Laptop's fan(s). That might be why it’s more effective at keeping it cool!
There seems to be an utility to do the same thing under windows, confirmed to work with FW 13 with 11th and 12th gen intel processors: GitHub - DHowett/FrameworkWindowsUtils, see How do you control framework's fan speed on Windows with CrosEC for more details.
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The fan curve on the AMD model is definitely weird (caveat, I only use Windows). It tries very aggressively to leave the fan off. I know it’s probably wishful thinking, but I’d really love it if an upcoming BIOS/firmware update gives us better fan control. Ideally, fully adjustable, but at a minimum, something like performance / balanced / silent.
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Hm yeah, I don’t really think they can do more than what they already did without redesigning the framework hardware, if you already own one I don’t see how to communicate to the EC from the BIOS. Maybe an EC firmware flash could have more soft/agressive curves, but I think the right thing here is a framework-developed software for linux and windows to control the fan. Open source software already exist but they are difficult for most end users. That might be a good and relatively easy feature request!
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Wow thx, the tool u linked for linux seems amazing, if I can figure out how to use it xD
I am back on linux as windows seems unusable for gaming on AMD at the moment (Ryzen 5 FW13)
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I’m also on an AMD board, but not on windows. I just had a video conference on my Arch Linux partition and my laptop heated up to 100℃ without the fans spinning up at all. The bottom of my laptop would have burned me if I touched it for more than a second. I rebooted and the fans immediately spun up to full blast. Coincidentally this happened during one of the times that I plug my laptop into my dock and it doesn’t charge (happens maybe 10% of the time). Since its happening to us across multiple operating systems, its probably yet-another firmware bug on the AMD framework board.
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