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What's wrong with the AMD version's wifi? I've got the original AMD F13 (and run NixOS) and I have no issues.

It's also a plain old M.2 WiFi/BT module. So if you really hate it, swap it out.

I haven't had any issues with Wifi. A family member replaced theirs with an Intel chip to fix an issue; turns out reception was just bad and not the wifi chip.

That brings me to my second point: if the wifi chip's what's holding you back there's nothing stopping you from replacing it.

Wifi worked out of the box for me on FW13 both the AMD 7840U and the HX 370 mainboards, in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 25.04. Ethernet via USB-C dock worked out of the box as well.

> It's not that hard

I suspect it's actually quite difficult to build an entirely modular laptop to work with several operating systems while supporting the latest components, and be void of any driver issues.

I use the Framework 16 AMD with the Mediatek MT7922 WiFi 6E wireless chip using the mt7921e driver and it works great