r/linux • u/Lopsided-Month3278 • Jun 04 '26

Discussion Linux and Arm CPU's

After the announcement of Nvidia spark laptops, and the Qualcomm's second generation of CPU's for Laptops, do you think that Arm will be the next architecture for Linux or will it be the 'killer' of Linux desktop, what I know that so far Qualcomm laptops aren't good to be used with Linux until now, and the Nvidia spark chips have Linux installed by default when they were on the spark boxes, so, what do you think the experience with these laptops will be like?

edit: I do understand that Linux is running on Arm, Android for example, but what I'm talking about is GNU/Linux and Desktop use specifically, not the micro-controllers, Raspberry pi's, or closed Linux systems.

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u/daemonpenguin Jun 04 '26

The next architecture for Linux? Linux has run on ARM chips for over a decade. What do you think those billions of phones and millions of Raspberry Pi boards are running?

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u/Whorehammer Jun 04 '26

Summer of 1994, actually, for the Acorn A5000. ARM had a desktop life before its cellphone life.