I wanted an Arm based Linux netbook or laptop for many years ever since the multi-core Smartphones came out around 2008.
Already back then the Intel based Netbooks were laughably bad compared to Arm, and couldn’t even play video properly, while you could do that with ease even on early smartphones with Arm at 1080p.
But for some reason Arm has given Linux very little love with their GPU drivers, and AFAIK they still don’t support it well, so now I say go fuck yourself.
Arm is NOT a good company for Linux. How they missed that opportunity for a strong market entry for over a decade I simply cannot fathom.
If AMD made an Arm CPU with Radeon graphics, that would be cool. Because AMD has good open source drivers on Linux, and has generally good Linux support.
Can we please make vendor-locked bootloaders illegal, for repairability and consumer choice and all that? There’s literally no reason for it, except to lock in customers.
Qualcomm paid Canonical a hefty sum to make sure chipsets were supported. It went upstream to kernel, but I don’t think it’s even in the 6.10 release last I checked. DKMS job for now I’m assuming?
Surely they’re not going to give the game away on the first generation ?
To end the PC and turn it into a phone.
Surely they would let people run linux for gen 1 & gen 2 and only then lock the bootloader. And maybe keep a triple priced version with an unlockable bootloader until the alternative OS community dies of attrition.
I wonder what’s the Linux experience/support on this laptop
I wanted an Arm based Linux netbook or laptop for many years ever since the multi-core Smartphones came out around 2008.
Already back then the Intel based Netbooks were laughably bad compared to Arm, and couldn’t even play video properly, while you could do that with ease even on early smartphones with Arm at 1080p.
But for some reason Arm has given Linux very little love with their GPU drivers, and AFAIK they still don’t support it well, so now I say go fuck yourself.
Arm is NOT a good company for Linux. How they missed that opportunity for a strong market entry for over a decade I simply cannot fathom.
If AMD made an Arm CPU with Radeon graphics, that would be cool. Because AMD has good open source drivers on Linux, and has generally good Linux support.
BIOS locked to Windows keys. Tuxedo is promising a Linux version of the same SOC soon, though.
Can we please make vendor-locked bootloaders illegal, for repairability and consumer choice and all that? There’s literally no reason for it, except to lock in customers.
If history is any indication then more lock-in will be the future trend. And they will sugarcoat it with reasons such as “this is more secure”.
Qualcomm paid Canonical a hefty sum to make sure chipsets were supported. It went upstream to kernel, but I don’t think it’s even in the 6.10 release last I checked. DKMS job for now I’m assuming?
https://canonical.com/blog/qualcomm-and-canonical-announce-strategic-collaboration
None, locked out.
Surely they’re not going to give the game away on the first generation ?
To end the PC and turn it into a phone. Surely they would let people run linux for gen 1 & gen 2 and only then lock the bootloader. And maybe keep a triple priced version with an unlockable bootloader until the alternative OS community dies of attrition.