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Fedora Podcast 44: Building a Better Fedora Laptop with Framework
The biggest issue that I've had with running Fedora on my Framework Laptop 16 has been the relatively buggy AMD GPU experience with the 6.12.x line of kernel versions.
I've collected some of the stuff that I've tweaked to make things a little bit better ever since installing Fedora 40 (now on F41).
If there is anything that I would love to see for the Framework Laptop 13 is QMK firmware for the keyboard. That's one thing that I really love about the keyboard for the Laptop 16.
I'm using the ANSI Linux version of the keyboard (Super key FTW!) and swapped some of the keys around and mapped a key combo for Scroll Lock, which I used as a Compose key. The linked GitHub repo in the above post has some extra details.
The standard CPU/GPU has been more than enough for me, as well as having a 4 TB and a 1 TB NVMe SSD in the included M.2 slots; so, the GPU expansion module and the new dual slot M.2 expansion module aren't something that I'll need... yet.
It would be interesting to see an Intel version and maybe even an ARM version of the Laptop 16 motherboards in the future.
Since I don't game on my laptop, integrated graphics is more than enough and would like to see a few efficiency cores for when I'm just browsing the web, reading e-mails, or not pushing the CPU much.
For ARM, both Qualcomm and the rumored NVIDIA desktop/mobile ARM processors would be a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, but I absolutely miss the efficiency of the M1 Max MacBook Pro that I had before. I would be happy with something in between the current AMD Ryzen APU and the M1/M2 Max SoCs re: performance and power when running Linux (noping the eff out when it comes to Windows).