UI freeze with Cinnamon or KDE on Framework 16 Ai 300

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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I got my Laptop 16 with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and RTX 5070 recently. After trying a few other options that didn’t work, I settled on installing the plain Ubuntu 25.10 desktop, but I don’t really care for the GNOME desktop.

There seems to some issue that causes the GUI to freeze after a short while at least with Ubuntu Cinnamon and Kubuntu, possibly others. The mouse moves and CTRL-ALT-Fx keys work and the command line is usable, but the GUI is otherwise completely unreactive. I’ve found some posts online with people having similar issues with ADM CPUs, but I couldn’t find anything that would say how to fix the issue.

Linux Mint 22.3 didn’t ever boot up to the GUI.

Any ideas on how to get Cinnamon or KDE to work?

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keep in min that AI 300 series laptop can only load Linux with Linux Kernel 6.14 and up at least, so any linux distro bellow it will give you black screen and won’t show anything since it’s a conflict with AMD drivers :confused: