No trouble Framework 13 build to run Ubuntu as daily driver

I am more than ready to join the framework family and get a Framework Laptop 13 running Ubuntu as a daily driver.
Although I have been following discussions for quite a while, I am still having issues deciding what combination of hardware / software has the less amount of potential issues.

My current understanding is some things that I would consider necessary (e.g., WiFi) have not been fully ironed out?

My thinking in terms of build is

CPU: AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series
RAM: crucial. Seems that people who are not buying from Framework have the less issues with this brand. I would go with CT2K32G56C46S5
Display: Most people running linux claim that the 2.8K with scaling is the way to go. I will obey.
OS: Ubuntu 25.04. I would prefer to be running an LTS, but it seems that you have to be on the newest possible for the newest chips?

These items worry me the most.

Sleep/wake issues: potentially related to all distros, but also not clear if expansion cards are drawing power/preventing sleep? I am trying to avoid computer melting in backpack.
WiFi: This seems to be having some major issues, from needing to upgrade the kernel to potentially swapping for a AX210 wifi adapter (which might not be AMD compatible and also messes sleep more?)

It’s not clear to me that going with an older build fixes all the problems.
It might be worth to go with an intel build? The difference in expense is more than justified if there will be zero pain out of the box.

Despite all my excitement about the laptop and all the hours I already invested in reading through the forums, I would hate to get the machine only to dump countless more hours and struggle to have basic functionality (aka internet?).
Hoping the community knowledge can help guide the decision (which might be wait six months till the bleeding edge gets the proper updates).

I’m in my 2nd week with my FW13 AMD AI7 350.

I accidentally put 24.04 on my stick and first installed that. Didn’t notice any problems within the 1-2 hours I used that, but didn’t try that much and therefore not much occasion to see standby, battery use etc…

Then re-installed with Ubuntu 25.04 as originally planned. Hardly any problems so far.

Wifi works totally fine without interruptions with original mediatek board. But I’m exclusively connecting to a couple of old-ish 5GHz access points. My guess is that people have problems with 6GHz or other wifi 7 features. I was ready to install mainline kernel to get me to recommended 6.15+ (instead of 6.14 that comes with 25.04), but didn’t have to bother so far.

Light use gets me 10 hours of battery life with no real tweaking. I purposefully installed only 1 32 GB RAM stick to trade a bit of speed for a bit of battery life.

Battery life is very sensitive to backlight as that is power hungry - I keep it mostly at 50%.

I have the 2.2 k screen, using 125% fractional scaling - no issues so far. 2.8 k has annoying rounded corners (VMMV), costs more and I don’t see what the extra pixels would get me - except eat more power. 2.2 k is plenty on 13” screen. I had 1920x1200 on my previous XPS 13 and that was plenty already.

Fan is off/quiet unless I start a game.

The only problem I have noticed so far is fingerprint reader not always waking up correctly after sleep.

I’ll soon upgrade to 25.10 which comes with kernel 6.17. That should take care of other access points using 6GHz/WIFI7 features in case I connect to one of those one day.

Overall great machine and I’m glad I got it.

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