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The biggest problem here is the operating system. If they could fix that, this might be enticing.
by adamtaylor_13 5mo ago
The biggest problem here is the operating system. If they could fix that, this might be enticing.
- didibus 5mo agoIf they put Linux on it I'd buy it, but with Windows 11, no thanks.
- cowmix 5mo agoI bought the Snapdragon Elite X over a year ago based on the promises of Qualcomm to bring solid Linux drivers at some point. Fast forward to today, Linux for that SoC is still a hot mess.
- IshKebab 5mo agoYeah never buy based on future promises.
- mft_ 5mo agoMaybe I'm being overly hopeful, but given the DGX Spark only runs Linux, and this is apparently a sibling in a laptop form factor, maybe it won't be too difficult to get Linux up and running effectively? Probably (a lot) more easily than Asahi on Apple Silicon, anyway.
- gaboot 5mo agoI'm sure someone can get the CPU/GPU running but things like wifi/bluetooth/USB ports will be rough since they will presumably integrated with the chip in a non-standardized ARM way. Almost all of the ARM laptops are basically unusable with GNU/Linux.
- fragmede 5mo agoWhich ones have you tried? Right now I'm on an MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910.and wifi/USB/sleep/hibernate works. DT is going to be the death of ARM, but the real challenge has been to get the GPU to work under Firefox.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5mo agoOne of the hassles with ARM machines is that you might technically be able to boot Linux on it but your Thunderbolt, display out, wireless, etc. will lack support and not work.
- ActorNightly 5mo agoThey did put linux on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
- drnick1 5mo agoThat's not Linux, that's a VM running Linux on Windows. Not very satisfying if you want the real thing, or want a real Linux DE.
- ActorNightly 5mo ago>that's a VM running Linux on Windows While thats true, its not what you think it is. WSL1 was VM in a traditional sense, it ran under windows. When you install WSL2, it basically changes your computer core OS to be a bare metal hypervisor (specialized version of Hyper V). Its the same concept as any cloud provider letting people provision VMs that run at native performance on the actual hardware. So WLS2 can talk to hardware like Graphics cards natively, and request ram on demand. You can also install windows managers in WSL2. For example https://github.com/Lamarcke/i3-on-wsl https://github.com/Lamarcke/i3-on-wsl. You can also install rainmeter on windows https://www.rainmeter.net/ https://www.rainmeter.net/ if you want customizability. You can make windows look exactly like mac os with that.
- oaiey 5mo agoWSL 1 was not a VM in a traditional sense. WSL 1 was a Windows subsystem which translated Linux syscalls into NT syscalls (e.g. file open). NT has capabilities there from its origins in the 90s supporting in theory user spaces for posix/os2/...
- ActorNightly 5mo agoSyscall translation is pretty much what userland vm software does.
- rustcleaner 5mo ago
- jlarocco 5mo agoAgreed. I'm trying to buy a laptop right now (Lenovo's checkout refuses to take my card?!?), and I would try one of these if it could run Debian. Will never buy one if it's Windows only, though.
- jtrn 5mo agoIndeed. Never buying a windows computer ever again. Every time I use it I get angry.
- carlosjobim 5mo agoHopefully it will be possible to hackintosh it. You can hackintosh almost any computer these days.
- xyst 5mo agoThey could fix that but that means losing market share. Microshit shareholders don’t like that