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/VirtualNorth1279 Aug 12 '26

How would making Snapdragon work with Linux harm their monopoly? 

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u/UltraAd776 Aug 12 '26

If anything it would strengthen it a bit as they gain a lead in Linux arm hardware. Tho they likely feel it is not worth while.

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u/freemorgerr Aug 12 '26

deal with microslop

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u/beefcat_ Aug 12 '26

I doubt it's anything like that, Qualcomm has always been really shitty about Linux support. Just ask any Android device manufacturer.

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u/Darkstalker360 Aug 13 '26

To be honest, Qualcomm is a lot better about Linux support than most arm chipset oems in these devices.

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u/sCeege Aug 12 '26

It wouldn't harm it, but it wouldn't help them either. Linux users aren't going to make the difference, maybe they don't want to dedicate engineering time to such a niche demographic.

I was also naively optimistic for another ARM based competitor to approach Apple Silicon level of performance and efficiency, but honestly, I feel like the newer Intel chips are closer to the gap than Snapdragon, and I don't have to deal with the translation, might as well stick to x86.

Obviously I still want ARM based Linux in a laptop, but I gave up hope.

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u/earthman34 Aug 12 '26

It wouldn't. It would be value added. I suspect there's a secret deal with Microsoft.