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‘Frequently returned item' warning slapped on Snapdragon X-powered Surface Laptop 7 at Amazon (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I believe it's still a massive pain to get Snapdragon X laptops to run Linux.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm almost certain there will be talks about this at Linaro Connect. The kernel side is mostly done (QC are much more proactive getting stuff upstream these days) so it's likely firmware that is the final thing that needs fixing.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope you are right. It's been 9 months since the release of Snapdragon X devices and to my knowledge running Linux on such devices is still not really viable in a production type environment.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

The firmware is the key. Meeting the SBA specifications is what allows various distro install mechanisms to work out if the box.