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General purpose Linux ARM laptops in 2028. Good or bad prediction? (lemmy.umucat.day)
submitted 1 week ago by xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I just want to hear the community's thoughts about this.

Current scenario is

  • We have Asahi on Apple devices but it's not for everyone
  • Snapdragon X Elite has shit compatibility with Linux
  • Pinebook is okay but they are low powered

We don't have a good Apple level or Dell XPS level ARM laptop. Heck, even Microsoft is not sure of their ARM strategy, given the glacial rate at which they release feature updates for their ARM devices.

So when do you think we will get good ARM laptops and who will come on top? I think late 2028 or early 2029 we might get them (after the AI bubble bursts).

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Fedora 44's DTB implementation actually makes the Snapdragon SoCs work pretty well. I'd give it a look.

Valve also has the Frame running on Snapdragon's, so that means full SoC performance and GPU implementation. How whatever they got working trickles down to the community remains to be seen.

AMD is launching their ARM chips this year.

Nvidia keeps pushing theirs back because the first gen was horrible, and the 2nd is already sounding problematic.