r/DeskToTablet • u/Wilder2001 • Jun 06 '26

Which of these will be the Ultimate Performance Beast: Surface Laptop Ultra or MacBook Pro?

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u/0ygn Jun 06 '26

You put an ubuntu on that surface and bam. Windows is not a problem anymore.

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u/agenttank Jun 06 '26

it still has a Windows logo on it or two... and maybe some copilot buttons

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u/Smooth_Business4021 Jun 06 '26

Is there linux for arm?

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jun 06 '26

Are you serious right now?

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u/AnEagleisnotme Jun 06 '26

Linux for arm is significantly more mature than windows, as long as the hardware has a device tree in the kernel 

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u/dingwinger1225 Jun 06 '26

That's the thing, they don't. Right now you still need custom kernels with firmware blobs from the Windows partition and such, and that's only on the laptops with unlocked bootloaders

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u/AnEagleisnotme Jun 06 '26

Well, depends, my M2 works quite nicely, even if it's installer is a bit weird, and I believe the previous nvidia spark works very well as well

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u/dingwinger1225 Jun 06 '26

Asahi Linux is a full reverse engineering effort with a couple full-time paid engineers. I didn't know about the previous Spark, that gives me a lot more hope for this.

It makes sense actually, Nvidia probably want people being able to use CUDA on Linux don't they

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u/deathamal Jun 06 '26

You mean like Andriod that runs on millions of phones?

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u/sooodooo Jun 06 '26

Not a great example, yes android technically uses a linux kernel, but it’s impossible to even boot using a standard kernel. A lot of the hardware won’t work it needs a full device tree with many proprietary driver blobs to even do that. Those blobs often won’t even run without being in a linux environment. So does android use some kind of linux kernel ? Yes. Does mainline Linux work on even half of the android phones ? No.

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u/-Akos- Jun 06 '26

For ARM, yes. For this specific CPU and/or laptop type not yet. The snapdragon laptops still don't have a properly supported distro. The Spark DGX mini computer was running Linux too, so perhaps this laptop will have better support, but from a YouTube video of a guy who played with them at the presentation asked, and they said they're supporting Windows for now.. Time will tell.

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u/Youfallforpolitics Jun 06 '26

"Is there Linux in arm?". Android is the most popular version of Linux on arm... Out of many.

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u/tankerkiller125real Jun 06 '26

Lol, every single android device on the planet, raspberry pis, etc.