framework 13 AMD... yay or nay?

[something_random_tho@lemmy.world]

My T14 is a great machine. The keyboard is excellent, and its Linux support it great, too. However the screen is pretty bad and has a bad ratio for coding, it always looks dirty because its black shell shows all the oil from your fingerprints. If something breaks out of warranty, you're pretty much SOL. Whereas with the Framework, I can upgrade and fix any component, up to and including the mainboard/CPU.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Hmm, so I left that link above running in an active Firefox tab for about an hour and a half and didn't see any crashes. I'm wondering again if you may have an obscure hardware issue. Either that or perhaps Fedora recently pushed out an update that fixed that issue. In any case I hope this might help to know. Have a good day!

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Hmm, so I left that link above running in an active Firefox tab for about an hour and a half and didn’t see any crashes. I’m wondering again if you may have an obscure hardware issue. Either that or perhaps Fedora recently pushed out an update that fixed that issue. In any case I hope this might help to know. Have a good day!

[amaterasu@lemmy.world]

Got it, the performance in the the TB4 for eGPU isn't very good, with a degradation of 30% or more in some cases

[somenonewho@feddit.org]

I was like batch 5 of the AMD framework 13 running Arch and Gnome on it.

I did have some problems with suspend/nvme drive that was fixed by replacing the nvme. If you go with their drive you'll probably be fine (I just grabbed one I had laying around). Ever since then the laptop is perfect. If you do get it check out the Archwiki article that has a lot of helpful tips for tuning your OS to the Hardware

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

This was my failure.

[puretryout@lemmy.kde.social]

Yup, that's the exact same problem I had. And I heard more stories of people having this problem. It's bad...

[puretryout@lemmy.kde.social]

Ok but you're talking about Cinnamon. Cinnamon's Wayland support is experimental sure, but that doesn't mean Wayland itself is. I mentioned KDE Plasma and GNOME because they are the ones using Wayland for the longest now and have the best support for it and there it works better than X11.

[dacotaco@lemmy.world]

You are correct. Its just that wayland is not as cut and dry of "everyone should switch to wayland, it works 100%" because thats not true.
Ye, my comment should have been "wayland support is experimental on some distros" and not "wayland is experimental" to be more correct but hey, if people could stop shouting at me to switch to wayland because it just works, id be happy.

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

Be very sure you pick the new 2.8k display version.

Why? I mean why is this so important?

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

So does Cinnamon, and I think GNOME as well.
They're configurable, too!

[puretryout@lemmy.kde.social]

The distros aren't the problem, the DE's are. Otherwise yeah agreed