Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops

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Phoronix: Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops

Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.10, today Canonical announced a developer preview of an Ubuntu 24.10 Linux build targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Snapdragon-X1E

[jonkoops]

Just don't buy these shit-boxes unless you can't. Qualcomm obviously does not care about Linux support. A lot of these hardware vendors just use poor software support as a manner of planned obsolescence and they do not deserve our money.

[brunosalezze]

I will wait to buy a SD Elite X until I can completely replace windows

[Abacus123]

Qualcomn sure is dragging their feet with their promise of mainline linux kernel support...

[mlau]

As owner of such a device, my advice is .. get an intel or amd device: much better linux support.
The only redeeming feature it has is the oled screen

[szymon_g]

Why bother with it when apple silicon is way more available?

[Veto]

I guess there is a reason they call it "developer preview".

However, what is the status of running x86 apps/snaps/flatpaks? Do they provide some sort of emulator out of the box?

Until then, it is going to be a pass... If the ARM laptops shall succeed, they have to work on easy x86 compatibility.

[loganj]

i always wonder why people try to use anything but x86 when there is no support for other platforms and even x86 is full of holes on linux. not to mention that even windows is so poor on these qualcomm shitty laptops

[fahrenheit]

i always wonder why people try to use anything but x86 when there is no support for other platforms and even x86 is full of holes on linux. not to mention that even windows is so poor on these qualcomm shitty laptops

True, for FOSS users and for a good percentage of software for the main arm64 distros (debian and rhel derivatives) there are native builds. In general the only thing that there is no general support is for windows games.
Some linux (x86/64) compatible games, mostly the ones based on c# or java (think stardew), can be made to work natively if there is no support out of the box with some thinkering.
As for windows games, box86/64 works great (and supports riscv), the same for fex. Users will then realise that they don't have an actual graphics card to run said games decently but that's another issue.

[mlau]

I guess there is a reason they call it "developer preview".

Until then, it is going to be a pass... If the ARM laptops shall succeed, they have to work on easy x86 compatibility.

If you depend on closed source x86 software then dont get an arm device, plain and simple.
Otherwise it's an ok device, the X1 cpu is surprisingly fast compiling stuff.
But I'd say wait at least 1 year until linux driver support has improved if you really want one (if the whole effort hasnt been abandoned by qc or the oems by then)