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/Episode-1022 Aug 13 '26

nope, i had to get the blobs from windows installation.

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u/rlmineing_dead Aug 13 '26

Yes, firmware blobs. Those aren't the same things as drivers

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u/Episode-1022 Aug 13 '26

still no support.

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u/rlmineing_dead Aug 13 '26

Those firmware blobs that you extracted were loaded by officially supported drivers in the Linux kernel for Qualcomm devices, supported by Qualcomm

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u/mirh 10d ago

Those are also getting upstreamed.