I’ll try to post a link directly to the 1:18 mark of the Level 1 Techs linux review:
He says “It idles about 10 watts, technically as low as 7 with idle power management”
I only run “powertop –auto-tune” at boot on my TrueNAS Scale server at home, but that little MSI mini PC idles at 4.7 to 5.0 watts as a result. Linux is amazingly power efficient on laptop-based hardware. So I think @rabidfurball will be in a good place and probably want to run linux for a 24x7 server with powertop running at boot.
7 watts at idle is amazing for a 128GB DDR5-8000 system with 5gbE networking and everything you get with the Framework Desktop. I plan to run mine as a Windows server for a while but my plan is to eventually replace my current Proxmox server with my Framework Desktop, so that potential for 7w at idle is very welcome.