Framework AMD 13 - review after one year (disappointment)

[nadb]

@Alex_Ruddick

One of the main reasons I bought this laptop was overall Linux support, which has been a decent but a mixed bag. With Linux Mint 21.x and 22.x, the touchpad, webcam, audio, and graphics worked out of the box - amazing! The WiFi driver is poor and disconnects intermittently, even after updating the drivers. Similarly ACPI support is poor, and the laptop often drains itself or locks up instead of sleeping properly. The BIOS was shockingly out of date and vulnerable to “LogoFail.” After several months Framework released an update, which was difficult to apply but eventually succeeded. This addressed the vulnerability but did not improve WiFi or ACPI support.

Most of this falls under your choice to use a distro with what amounts to an ancient kernel in relation to the hardware. As to the BIOS well yes, not their strong point but certainly not shockingly out of date. Outside of Lenovo Thinkpad, or Dell Latitude/Precision, you won’t find truly up to date BIOS releases.

As to your recommendation to buy Apple…sure if you don’t mind being locked into that eco-system…hard pass. Dell has it’s own long list of Clown Car additions that it is also a hard pass.