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Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).

Linux, as in kernel: Yes. Qualcomm doesn't develop FOSS GPU drivers, though. freedreno only supports older Adreno GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

open source drivers were developed for apple's gpus, so if there is demand seems like someone would do it for qualcomm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's better to support open hardware that doesn't rely on unsupported reverse engineering by community contributors.