Don’t have the AMD model and am only passingly familiar with the various forum posts but I know some switched the WiFi card out for an Intel card for better Linux compatibility and performance.
When I bought mine (about a year ago, also amd-ai-300) I tried to run Manjaro and then Mint but there were problems with the wifi and things like the keyboard control of screen brightness. But Framework always said to use Ubuntu and sure enough everything works under Ubuntu 24.04. Maybe other distros will eventually catch up to the hardware.
Not quite sure what you mean by 100% Linux compatible?
I’ve installed openSUSE Slowroll with KDE Plasma on four Framework 13 and one Framework 16 and everything worked fine. Slowroll included a number of Framework specific drivers. I’ve been running various Linux distros on AMD cpus and gpus for 30 years. I’ve almost always used SuSE and openSUSE since 1996. I rarely run Linux on Intel cpus because AMD cpus always seem to offer a much better “bang for the buck” than Intel and Linux always seems to run fine on AMD. I prefer the 2.8K screen and never notice the rounded corners but the lower resolution screen is very nice, too. I prefer using wired Ethernet but haven’t had trouble using the AMD WiFi cards when I use WiFi. I used Thinkpads from the days when IBM made them but once Framework started releasing models using AMD cpus, I’ve been buying and recommending Framework computers instead of Thinkpads.
The driver for this card (and apparently the previous one) has a number of bugs. One of the members of this forum has done a lot of work killing these bugs and feeding the patches upstream.
I started with Pop OS and had no trouble with the WiFi. I eventually moved from PopOS, but it was because of issues I ran into with secure boot, and I did not feel I had the threat model to bother. So I moved to Fedora, but use the Cosmic desktop. It works very well, and have really not run into any issues with the AMD WiFi card.
Hey, I’m a web developper on Linux Mint with a framework AI 350 for about 6 months. It works well out of the box yes. It came with the Mediatek wifi card, I had issues with it until the kernel 6.14 (or was it 6.18?) came out, anyways it’s been released for a very long time now and no issue anymore with it.