Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features

Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-XPS-9345-Linux-Patches

[raystriker]

I really do think non-Apple ARM laptops will do better with non Windows consumers if they get their act together...fast.

[mlau]

I really do think non-Apple ARM laptops will do better with non Windows consumers if they get their act together...fast.

I think non-windows arm laptops will always be a niche: the average user the big oems (hp/lenovo/dell/..) sell to associate a dell/hp/lenovo with windows, and their windows software for the most part will run, which keeps oem support effort somewhat low. The average user also knows that Apple won't run their windows software because it's Apple, not windows.

I doubt that the big oems were much interested in arm laptops before ms showed them that windows arm can run most of windows-x86 software (or moved it to browser apps) simply because of the support nightmare of angry people complaining their early 2001 tax software won't run on this new device (regardless of OS).

Same goes for linux arm64 laptops: who wants to deal with these support calls for a linux arm distro? Windows licenses are cheap for oems; can a linux distributor cover even the costs of user support while having to be cheaper than windows?

[Ladis]

I think non-windows arm laptops will always be a niche: the average user the big oems (hp/lenovo/dell/..) sell to associate a dell/hp/lenovo with windows, and their windows software for the most part will run, which keeps oem support effort somewhat low. The average user also knows that Apple won't run their windows software because it's Apple, not windows.

I doubt that the big oems were much interested in arm laptops before ms showed them that windows arm can run most of windows-x86 software (or moved it to browser apps) simply because of the support nightmare of angry people complaining their early 2001 tax software won't run on this new device (regardless of OS).

Same goes for linux arm64 laptops: who wants to deal with these support calls for a linux arm distro? Windows licenses are cheap for oems; can a linux distributor cover even the costs of user support while having to be cheaper than windows?

Actually, Windows software runs on Apple laptops. Even IT dept. in big corps like HPE added support for Windows on ARM, running on these Macs in a virtual machine. Just testing ARM laptops from Dell and HP and the one from Dell is really great, better than majority PC laptopts. So good, some people switched back from Apple, where they were *despite macOS*.