cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1014937
I recently spent some time with the Framework 13 laptop, evaluating it with the new Intel Core Ultra 7 processor and the AMD Ryzen 7 7480U. It felt like the perfect opportunity to test how a handful of games ran on Windows 11 and Fedora 40. I was genuinely surprised by the results!
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The Framework 13 is perfectly capable of gaming even with its integrated graphics, provided you’re willing to compromise by lowering the resolution and quality presets for more demanding games. (It’s also a testament to how far AMD’s APUs have come in the past decade.)
Summary of results:
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Linux wins
- Total War: Warhammer III: Windows wins
- Cyberpunk 2077: Linux wins
- Forza Horizon 5: Windows wins
These results are an interesting slice of the Linux vs Windows gaming picture, but certainly not representative of the entire landscape. A few shorts years ago, however, I never would have dreamed I’d be writing an article where even two games on Linux are outperforming their Windows counterparts.
I tried Linux on my Framework 13, and couldn’t get audio working. I gave up after that.
I really wish Linux wasn’t such a PITA to get simple things working.
I installed fedora and it just worked without modifications.
Of all the distros, I don’t think I’ve ever tried Fedora. It’s usually been Ubuntu, Mint, or some other Debian-derived distro.
What distro? Framework compatibility should be pretty smooth iirc.
Ubuntu 24.x, because that’s what I’m most familiar with, and it’s one of the officially supported distros. Admittedly, this was from a Live USB, and not installed on my system.
On my Windows desktop, I had dual-boot with Linux (Ubuntu again), and it refused to work with my wifi card. I spent endless hours trying to get it working and just gave up.
This is almost unheard of for me with Windows. 99% of the hardware just works, and the other 1% often has a very simple driver installation process.
You need a distro with up to date kernel, for recent Intel laptops, and it will work out of the box.
Installed it on an external drive (Fedora 40) and everything is working, including the fingerprint scanner. Well, not everything. No adguard for linux, a steam game I play doesn’t support linux, etc. But it is smooth and seems more refined than what I remember Ubuntu being. maybe I’ll stick to Fedora when I have to use Linux :)
Did you set it to Linux audio mode in the EFI. I think they have a big thing about this on their site within the Linux install directions. I run KDE Fedora on my Framework 16, and it’s smooth as butter.
I ran Fedora off a liveUSB and everything (except fingerprint) worked out of the box! It was so smooth that I may set it up on an external SSD and use it for a while. If it still works great after a few weeks/months, I may just install it as a dual boot or replace windows altogether.
FedoraKDE on my 16 too, I didn’t set it to linux audio mode at first, still worked fine out of the proverbial box. Everything just worked as expected.