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> I'm very excited to get one of these and install Linux on it. Exactly everyone's immediate thought on this, lol. That the thing runs Windows is mostly a dist

• delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
  Not my thought. In general, Linux runs worse on laptops than Windows does. Many laptops have HiDPI displays, which Linux's graphics stack simply can't deal with properly. Track pads, fingerprint sensors, hybrid GPU set-ups, even external monitor arrangements are amongst the many issues Linux struggles with to this day. Linux has issues with pinning CPUs to a higher frequency than idle, and hence exhausting laptop batteries real quick. I am loathe to see what having an entirely new hardware stack vis à vis Qualcomm will do to Linux installs on these.