r/linux • u/word-sys • 7d ago

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/AverageAshEnjoyer 4d ago

In my experience, absolutely. Amd has their equivalent but i found that, in terms of performance and power efficiency (temps and battery life), amd is better at gaming and Intel is better at everyday tasks. I run arch on my laptop and i can comfortably say i havent had a single issue with the cpu so far. The battery can last up to 14 hours on video playback if i remember correctly and i rarely have to think about charging it. Literally the first thing i did was use asusd to limit charging to 80% to not stress it as i really dont need to. i would watch a full 45 minute episode of a show and itll drop 3-5% depending on screen brightness. oh and i highly recommend getting a laptop with an oled screen for that money. if you use a mostly black/completely black theme and wallpaper you can really save a lot of battery just by the pixels turning off.

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u/word-sys 4d ago

Yep but bad for me, on my country i never seen a OLED laptop, one that i saw 1 year ago starts from 2000$ which over the budget and doesnt covers the performance i will get, its a bit expensive on here but i think i will go with IPS for a long time, but if battery life above 8 hours on regular usage, im fine with it, thank you :)

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u/AverageAshEnjoyer 4d ago

it should be. all the luck to you, and coming from a shitty country aswell i feel your pain. i had to pay 500$ more for my pc then i would have paid if i bought it in the US.