[HN Gopher] Tuxedo Computers Cancels Snapdragon X1 Linux Laptop
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Tuxedo Computers Cancels Snapdragon X1 Linux Laptop
Author : Venn1
Score : 34 points
Date : 2025-11-21 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| andrewaylett wrote:
| While I almost certainly wouldn't have done more than wished for
| one, it's a shame they're not getting any return for their
| effort.
| ndiddy wrote:
| It's a shame that this didn't end up going anywhere. When
| Qualcomm was doing their press stuff prior to the Snapdragon X
| launch, they said that they'd be putting equal effort into
| supporting both Windows and Linux. If anyone here is running
| Linux on a Snapdragon X laptop, I'd be curious to know what the
| experience is like today.
|
| I will say that Intel has kind of made the original X Elite chips
| irrelevant with their Lunar Lake chips. They have similar
| performance/battery life, and run cool (so you can use the laptop
| on your lap or in bed without it overheating), but have full
| Linux support today and you don't have to deal with x86
| emulation. If anyone needs a thin & light Linux laptop today,
| they're probably your best option. Personally, I get 10-14 hours
| of real usage (not manufacturer "offline video playback with the
| brightness turned all the way down" numbers) on my Vivobook S14
| running Fedora KDE. In the future, it'll be interesting to see
| how Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips compare to Snapdragon X2.
| ori_b wrote:
| Forget equal effort: Start off with hardware docs.
| IshKebab wrote:
| Does anyone know _why_ Linux laptop battery life is so bad? Is it
| a case of devices needing to be turned off that aren 't? Poor CPU
| scheduling?
| WastedCucumber wrote:
| I ran into this problem on a Slimbook some years ago now. I
| found that my battery drained way too fast in standby, and I
| remember determining that this was some (relatively common)
| problem with sleep states, that some linux machines couldn't
| really enter/stay in a deeper sleep state, so my Slimbook's
| standby wasn't much of a standby at all.
|
| But that's just one problem, I bet.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| > Does anyone know why Linux laptop battery life is so bad?
|
| It's _extremely_ dependent on the hardware and driver quality.
| On ARM and contemporary x86 that 's even more true, because
| (among other things) laptops suspend individual devices
| ("suspend-to-idle" or "S0ix" or "Modern Standby"), and any one
| device failing to suspend properly has a disproportionate
| impact.
|
| That said, to a first approximation, this is a case where
| different people have wildly different experiences, and people
| who buy high-end well-supported hardware experience a
| completely different world than people who install Linux on
| whatever random hardware they have. For instance, Linux on a
| ThinkPad has _excellent_ battery life, sometimes exceeding
| Windows.
| exabrial wrote:
| I mean I feel like once one of the ARM chipmakers can lend a hand
| on the software side it should be a landslide.
|
| Google and Samsung managed to make very successful Chromebooks
| together, but IIRC there was a bunch of back and forth to make
| the whole thing boot quickly and sip battery power.
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