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Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor::Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerf

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux works well but sadly most people don't use Linux

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they'd be okay with Gnome as well.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If they sell snapdragon laptops with Linux preinstalled people would buy, sadly they're more likely to include Windows (which has bad support).

[–] scrape@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android is Linux. Linux is the most popular OS in the world.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn't be interested in a laptop running android.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yet Chromebooks have been a major element for the past 5 years, with more units sold than Apple. I know it's not technically GNU/Linux. But there's still a Linux core underneath required to run Chrome OS.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ChromeOS is popular because it's included in cheap laptops and the operating system is essentially idiot proof (at the cost of being able to do practically nothing)