[brosco]

I've had my Framework 12 over a year now, so maybe I can give some perspective. I had a lot of similar issues (mostly with wifi) running Fedora when I first got it. I also felt like I wasted a lot of time getting it set up and fixing little bugs here and there.

But I'm happy to say that after the first two weeks or so, it's been rock solid. The issues I had with wifi were patched pretty quickly, and everything else pretty much just works with the default configuration. The only thing is the battery life is still bad, partly because I have way too much RAM...

[vladvasiliu]

> The only thing is the battery life is still bad, partly because I have way too much RAM...

Can you actually tell the difference the RAM quantity has on battery life?

I have a different laptop with an older zen 3 part, as well as its cousin with an 11th gen i7. I haven't noticed any change in battery life, going from 32 to 64 GB on the AMD and from 16 to 32 on the Intel.

[lhl]

There's a small impact with larger capacities, but mostly it's memory speed and channels that have the biggest impact. Here's some testing posted in the Framework community forums from a couple years ago: https://community.frame.work/t/battery-life-impact-of-ram-me...

[hifycycyv]

Buying a new laptop and running Linux pretty much always requires running mainline kernels for a few weeks or months until things get fixed. Same thing happens for ThinkPad and others.