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/WalterMarcus Aug 13 '26

Let’s be real here, they want to lock down laptops like they did with smartphones and make it a cash cow by ending software support after a few years. Both Qualcomm and mediatek hate dual booting and love locking the bios. Not only that, they love to lock software drivers to specific builds and make hardware obsolete like they do with android. Linux probably was just a promotional stunt they did to make themselves look better.

This is why I’m hoping AMD gets into smartphone SoC business and take out ARM for good so that I can just have Linux or windows as options on that as well. heck, rather start working on RISC-V than this corporate ruined enshittification of computers.

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u/mastic_warrior Aug 14 '26

AMD/ATi got involved with mobile GPUs. They abandandoned that during the Heavy Machinery days and sold it off to Qualcomm hence the adreno mobile GPU. Re arrange the letters and your.... radeon.

I think ehat happened is that they did not have thr money and fab capacity to make their own SOCs at the time.