I have just ordered my FW16 and moving from a Mac. I am familiar with Linux and at the moment I am torn between ZorinOs 18 or “plain” Ubuntu 25.x. Zorin has the appeal that it has the theming and also LTS support. Would I run into any compatibility issues running Zorin18 (especially when it comes to driver updates) or should I just go with Ubuntu`
Hi @MagicDude4Eva and welcome to this forum,
Whilst I have run ZorinOS in the past although not on FW hardware… so can’t comment.
However, i currently run Linux Mint 22.2 on a FW16 which is also based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (like ZorinOS) and I’m very happy. My FW performs well and is very stable, no driver issues.
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What version of the FW16 are you running?
At the moment I am torn between plain Ubuntu and customise, Zorin 18 pro because the theming options look like what I want to achieve and last option would be Fedora where my initial impression is that it gives me more flexibility with KDE.
Ryzen 9 7940HS with RX7700S dGPU and 32Gb RAM.
When i purchased mine i tried Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint. Settled for Linux Mint because i found it to be the most reliable. Ubuntu and Fedora both crashed on me… Linux Mint didn’t.
I own a framework 16 with Ryzen AI 300 series no dGPU atm.
I installed zorin 18 pro on it and it works, but i found a slight of a problem. Having bluetooth on causes wifi problems. idk if this is just OS related and hopefully not hardware related, since it claims to come with AMD wifi 7 card and not som mediatek as before. Since some apparently got mediatek card instead that seems to drop out on wifi sorta.
I’m gona install windows 11 on a 1TB ssd and see what wifi card mine got.