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framework 13 AMD... yay or nay? (lemmy.ml)

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hi,

pretty much the subject... I am trying to choose my next laptop and I am tempted to buy a framework 13 AMD. I saw this post from one year ago : https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-amd

and while the review is impressive, comments are not. how things have evolved since then? any experience?

EDIT: you convinced me, I just ordered mine. Thanks for the incredible answers !
NEW EDIT: I use arch (btw), and Gnome. For the answers, I do not think this will pose a problem but... what do you think?
(and yes, I ordered mine before reading last comment of paequ2 who doesn't like it... for reasonable reasons, maybe. I hope I will have more luck ;) )

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[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I ran into some minor issues with mine running Fedora 41, all had workarounds.

Sometimes the ports stop working properly, I have to pull out either the USB-C or USB-A expansion card and plug it back in and its fine. Scared me the first time it happened before and a reboot didn't fix it.
I ran into full-system stutters that were actually related to PSR. I had to add amdgpu.dcdebug_mask=0x410 (remove the underscore, the word filter got a little overzealous) to my kernel command line since I couldn't listen to music without stuttering. Fascinating that the display having PSR problems caused audio stutters, but here we are. It's weird that others aren't running into this, but whatever. My battery life is worse with it off but at least the computer doesn't stutter anymore.
Obviously only some of the ports support USB4 so I run USB-C on both back ports and USB-A on both frontlier ports.

edit: can i just say that there are fewer more negative places than Phoronix comments, in general. I wouldn't take them too seriously.

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