...but you might not | Linux on X Elite laptops

Snapdragon X Elite laptop with Linux running on it. It's....possible.

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[kaylabridget]

Bro said "I use Arch btw" 3 seconds into the video

[joffff]

I've been considering these Snapdragon laptops for a few days but you're the only person I've found testing from a dev or Linux user perspective, so thanks!

[alexeiz]

Linux Foundation has a lot of money, of which only 2%-4% is spent on the actual Linux development. And yes, Qualcomm is a member of the Linux Foundation.

[knofi]

It's a shame that nobody is selling these notebooks with Linux installed!

[card_craft]

Man, When linux support/development gets far enough it will be my next laptop. That battery life speaks volumes to me

[tmacman]

I want one of those Snapdragon laptops but I refuse to buy one until I know for certain that Linux runs on them.

[jswlprtk]

Thanks, please keep track of any progress towards better Linux compatibility and keep us posted. Thank you again!

[DanielClear]

Device trees will be the death of using a custom OS.
We have the same problem on Android devices, which requires a lot of manual labour and hard work to even boot a custom OS. Every Android version usually requires an update to all of the trees (boot (kernel + ramdisk), device, vendor). Surprise surprise, Asus trees were easy, Samsung trees are still one of the hardest.
As I always said, ARM will kill user options on Desktop/Laptop. They'll eventually enforce Secure Boot (if they didn't already) and you'll only boot whatever the company wants you to, and even if you somehow bypass Secure Boot, you won't have drivers.

[leito]

DEVICE TREES? ON PC?! This is a joke that somebody thought it is acceptable to release laptops without real UEFI & ACPI support. By definition this is not PC anymore...

[uilleachan]

Well done, this is the vid I've been waiting for...

[Cavi]

Hey, you've probably already gotten comments like that haha, so please don't be annoyed, I do not mean any harm, just want to correct something.
You refer to the kernel as a "core of the Linux system", while to be more exact, Linux IS the kernel, and the systems are, for example, Ubuntu or Arch. So Linux (the kernel) is the core of an operating system (like Ubuntu or Arch).
This is totally just nitpicking, so please, do not feel attacked, just wanted to point that out for anyone in the comment section who might be confused. Great video none the less! These machines are interesting and I am happy to see us finally having real alternatives to x86 platforms which were never ideal when it comes to laptops. Hopefully soon more progress will be made to expand the compatibility with specific machines running the Snapdragon chip.

[shApYT]

The thumbnail should be "I can... But you might not."

[ASDFG]

Canonical, AKA Ubuntu people are probably gonna be next on getting it running, at least thats my guess, given that they kinda have dedicated teams for their different versions of Ubuntu and some enterprise backing $$$ behind them.

[MW-mnel]

Fedora and OpenSuse have most recent kernel and driver support. Ubuntu is usually way behind.

[RomPereira]

Linaro is creating the drivers for those machines with ARM. They are slow. They already had all the support made for the 7c and 8c. The issue is that this X Elite chip is not from Qualcomm, they acquired this company that produced those chips...

Tuxedo is working on a X1 Elite machine with their Linux OS preinstalled (based on Ubuntu).

[MarbsMusic]

It sounds very similar to the early days of Slackware when everything had to be compiled manually and only a few components worked. Very time consuming... rewarding if you could get it to work but the process wasn't always the easiest even if you did it quite often.

[Techonsapevole]

Finally! Linux 6.11 should be more supported, but AMD Ryzen AI 300 seems a safer bet for the support

[alivarfan]

Great video and thanks for all your effort to install Linux on the X Elite laptops

[Kloppy]

I really want an X Elite notebook, but nothing will ever make me switch back to Windows. Thanks for the video!