Snapdragon X Elite on Ubuntu 24.10: October Update

A couple of days ago Ubuntu announced they are working on their second iteration of their snapdragon concept to make it possible to run Linux and more versions of the Snapdragon X Elite laptops. Today, I will cover their progress and I will come back later with my results in testing this 2nd version on my ASUS Vivobook S 15.

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Good morning DJ. I have been looking forward to this, although I no longer have need of a laptop. Still, less power means less heat to dissipate.

[colinstu]

Apparently ARM has rescinded Qualcomm's ARM license for the cores used in this chip?!

[EZBlast]

Took a few days but I got it up and running, Yoga 7X, 32 gig - (the partitioner dedicates 8 gig to swap) - 1tb (will change to 2 soon enough), app center broken - fixed, fixed Bluetooth, sound otherwise not working, but since it is available through BT, only a matter of building a path to sound. The Vanilla DT was very limited, so I uploaded the Plasma DT (only) through the Discover software center, and now in the info center - when I select to be in Plasma DT at login, I am solidly in the KDE 6.15 edition, Themes - most will not work - each has a reason - a few work, a few had work arounds - not working and glitching - only 1 - TG for Timeshift - lol - still almost everything else - inc. taskbar apts - work. Surprised myself, it's running better than the Vanilla DT to be honest. Am very satisfied with the progress.

[ironfist]

Somewhat unrelated, I upgraded to 24.10 on my surface go 4gb and it seems to work pretty well. I still have to use x11 when I want to share screen on skype still, unfortunately (but wayland was fine other than that). This is just microsoft not enabling the button on wayland.

[MegaManNeo]

Any progress is good progress but seeing how we need specific images and support for each and every device unlike with x86 makes me also think that Linux on Snapdragon will still suck for a long while unless the device is built with Linux in mind.

[dalatech]

good news
I have ASUS Vivobook S 15 (S5507),

*What works* it mean it work fine ?
Devices we have seen successful installations on:

Dell XPS 13 9345 (32GB and 64GB) 59
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (32Gb and 64GB) 61


Currently not (yet) supported:
ASUS Vivobook S 15
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the image will ready on Monday *

Dell Latitude 7455
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 49
Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge 11
Surface Pro 11

[rslashteenagers]

I'm one of the people that bought a certain snapdragon x elite laptop based on best buy prices. I now have a HP OmniBook X 14. I guess I won't have Ubuntu for awhile.

[terrydaktyllus]

Who cares about Snapdragon X Elite? A properly optimised Linux build can be made to run on any old hardware, that's one of the main reasons to run it in the first place.

Leave the latest hardware to the "fashionistas" who need more and more power in their computers because they use more and more privacy-hating proprietary OSes that run more and more nefarious data-stealing applications in the background that suck up that power as it is given to them.

And I've typed this on a Thinkad T60 with a Core 2 Duo CPU and 3GB RAM that was built back in 2007!