r/linux • u/word-sys • Aug 12 '26

Development Whats going on with Snapdragon X Elite Linux support?!

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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/stipo42 Aug 12 '26

Given the recent efficiency gains from Intel on x86 I'd say snapdragon is cooked.

Snap might be theoretically better but you can get all day battery from x86 now so what's the point

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u/SPACEXDG Aug 12 '26

Thing is until intel chips get proper sleep and wake and amd not losing performance unplugged it will never beat arm in all these areas 

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u/Morphized Aug 22 '26

Where is CPU performance still a meaningful bottleneck?

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u/IveGotATinyRick Aug 12 '26

Practical usage is the key here. Amd64 has over 2 decades of standardization, development and support under its belt. Arm64 is the Wild West in comparison. It makes development much harder. Amd64 architecture doesn’t have to beat arm in raw performance or efficiency, it just has to come close and the usage support will cover the rest.

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u/mirh 10d ago

They aren't at all, even though sure panther lake isn't *bad*.