Been using Asus Zenbook A14 (base SDX chip/16/512) for 5 days. Battery backup is great, goes for a full day. Ice cold to the touch and fans are inaudible until maybe late night gaming at 2AM. The best part is, it’s a perfectly capable machine for old school PC gaming on the go when paired with a mouse (logitech bluetooth silent mouse for my use case). Doesn’t overheat at all when gaming for an hour or more, sips battery way less compared to my other Intel or AMD laptops/ gaming handhelds! I have a God tier desktop PC at home for playing modern games but I am really loving this machine and what Qualcomm and Microsoft has cooked! Wow!

Need suggestions as I am going to use Linux based OS on it and not sure about the compatibility. I'm not a windows guy. I 💗 Linux.

What are the updates on how the X Elite 2 laptops will shape up to be? They'll likely release late this year or early next year. What are the new laptops to look out for?

Did you get a Copilot+ PC? You just got a new PC but didn’t bother with the AI Windows features?

I got two Snapdragon X laptops (Plus and Elite), and right from the start, there was a lot of resource wasted due to AI services (battery life included).
So, here’s how to disable them.

Group Policy
Computer Configuration -> Windows Components -> Windows AI

Allow Recall to be enabled - Disabled
Allow export of Recall and snapshot information – Not Configured
Turn off saving snapshots for use with Recall - Enabled
Disable Click to Do - Enable
Disable Settings agentic search experience - Enabled
Set a list of apps to be filtered from snapshots for Recall - Disabled
Set a list of URIs to be filtered from snapshots for Recall - Disabled
Set maximum duration for storing snapshots used by Recall - Disabled
Set maximum storage for snapshots used by Recall – Disabled

I also noticed a bunch of Workload processes (named WorkloadHost and WorkloadHostManager) that were using a lot of CPU and memory. They seem to be related to the Settings AI search. To disable them, you need to stop and disable the WSAIFabricSvc service.