On the official site where it says to check for compatibility with different OS only Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is marked as working with workarounds. But neither 23.04 nor Mint 21.1 are claimed as supported.
Now pardon my confusion and perhaps a stupid question but aren’t these 3 distros nearly identical (at least at kernel level) and should have same hardware support? Or it has something to do with drivers?
Btw I’m not a total linux noob, it’s just been quite some time since I’ve used it. Trying to prepare before my fw ships.
Allow me to explain.
AMD Ryzen 7040 Series and Intel 13th Gen, workaround required due to a needed firmware update mentioned in guides.
Intel 11th and 12th gen, out of the box.
Also note officially supported and community supported.
The Compatible community supported section located under AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Compatibility shows as not officially supported (at least it does on desktop view).
To be updated as I get time replace 23.04 with 23.10. But not officially supported will remain as we only test against Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Fedora 39 on AMD 7040 Series.
This doesn’t mean it won’t work. It means if you have issues, you will be asked to test against an officially supported release for ticketed support.
Tltr, you will be following this guide to ensure your fingerprint reader firmware is correct.
https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/updating-fingerprint-reader-firmware-on-linux-for-13th-gen-and-amd-ryzen-7040-series-laptops-HJrvxv_za