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TUXEDO Computers Drops Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Laptop Plans (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Back in mid-2024, the Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers teased plans for developing a Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop. Initially they hoped to have it out by Christmas 2024. That didn't happen and now approaching Christmas 2025 they confirmed they have stopped their plans for shipping a Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop for Linux customers.

Earlier in 2025 they confirmed various obstacles they had been hitting with the Linux support around the Snapdragon X Elite effort. They did get to posting Linux kernel patches for the Device Tree on their planned laptop. As recently as in early November they posted the latest Linux DT patches for their ARM laptop with the effort appearing to still be ongoing -- even with Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops for Windows on ARM now coming about.

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I know nothing about what it takes to develop a laptop. Are these issues (BIOS updates, virtualization support, USB4 support, etc) something the laptop manufacturer needs to develop solutions for in-house? Wouldn't that be the job of Qualcomm? Or are Tuxedo saying that these things aren't supported on the Linux side yet? Qualcomm claimed to be contributing to the kernel last year, so idk if that just hasn't happened yet or if they just lied.

Either way this is disappointing, but understandable. There's no sense in working to release a laptop with previous-gen hardware that's not going to be competitive.

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My understanding is that most of this is down to ARM's (relative) lack of standardization. Consumer ARM SoCs don't even have ACPI, so you aren't even guaranteed to be able to do things like powering off the system. Qualcomm pretty much has to add some minimum support for their SoCs to the kernel because most of their consumers will want to get Android working on them, but that doesn't mean they'll do more than they have to for that.

There's a reason you can install Linux on any x86 PC and it will mostly work, but you can't install an ARM Linux on a phone. Even Android forks like Lineage don't support all Android phones, even though they're shipping basically the same thing the manufacturers are.

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