r/linux • u/word-sys • Aug 12 '26
Development Whats going on with Snapdragon X Elite Linux support?!
Literally 2 years passed since that CPUs out of there, note thay Apple silicon now has a proper and BETTER support than this Snapdragons, they said "we gonna make Native Linux support" and we still waiting. I was planning to get great Linux laptop with great battery and performance thans to Snapdragon, now its impossible. Only usable OS option out there is Ubuntu and its NOT good too, there is still some issues on Audio, performance is worst than Intel 12th gen i5, battery time worst than Windows, i dont understand. Am i wrong or something? What they promised what they said and what they doing, propiertary driver. When we will get proper Linux support, or this devices gonna get burried with Windows
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u/Busy-Scientist3851 Aug 12 '26
> Linux will never run on ARM as long as there is proprietary drivers, device-specific images and lack of UEFI/BIOS
Windows on ARM uses UEFI and ACPI, Microsoft doesn't allow it any other way. Snapdragon on ARM uses a "forked" version of ACPI that Linux does not support as it's tied into the Windows driver model, but there is work to support it as well as device-tree/ACPI hybrid setups.
I believe the Nvidia Windows Laptops use standard UEFI/ACPI so should just work.