Is anybody running Linux on ARM laptops? (Mediatek, Qualcomm Snapdragon, etc.)
2026-03-31 17:49 UTC
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@First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2026-03-31 20:18
Fedora Asahi on an M1 Mac. It’s flawless apart from the still missing driver support for displays over usb-C (yes there is an experimental branch, no I’m not compiling my own kernel on the machine I rely upon for uni)
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@undrwater@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 18:43
Yes. Gentoo on an arm Chromebook. Plasma. Runs fairly well. Battery lasts forever.
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@CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2026-03-31 18:19
I run Armbian on a Pinebook Pro. Its not fast but it runs well.
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-03-31 20:59
I looked into it but everything I've looked up shows that it doesn't really work very well. I remember when Snapdragon laptops first debuted they were showing off Fedora but it doesn't seem much progress has been made since then. Here's hoping SteamOS for ARM (Steam Frame) makes some headway in this department.
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@hkwln@lemmy.ml 2026-04-03 10:06
my mate runs ubuntu on snapdragon elite
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@colourlesspony@pawb.social 2026-03-31 19:42
I've been running Ubuntu on my pinebook pro. It's quite usable. I also put the ssd adapter in it. That helps a lot with firefox loading super slow but it also munches the battery.
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@Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-31 18:41
That’s a really good question as I was also curious about it since we only hear about Asahi on the M Macs. I don’t know what you can run on the Snapdragons Linux wise..
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@nobody_1677@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 20:20
Haven't done it personally, but I think Ubuntu would be one of the better choices. You get the Ubuntu ARM debs and ARM snaps out of the box. You can then install Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks. Fedora Flatapks is small and not without controversy, but one of its benefits is that all of its packages are built for ARM. Flathub and Snap aren't consistent in doing that. Any many times you'll find that Snap has an ARM build and Flathub doesn't, and vice versa.