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Which (Lenovo) notebooks to buy when coming from Apple Silicon? (lemmy.skumring.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which notebooks are recommendable when coming from Apple Silicon-MacBooks in terms of runtime and efficiency, preferrably for Fedora or Manjaro with KDE Plasma? For now, I am looking towards Lenovo T14(s) or X1 Carbon - mixed use scenario including simple media (photos, cutting 1080p-videos, media management, Office & mail) stuff? Still love the "Lenovo"-brand and its keyboard and look 'n feel so this vendor would be my favourite.

Can anyone of you here recommend Snapdragon-devices yet which would be the best comparison as it's also architecture based on ARM? Both Fedora and Manjaro have ARM-builds so I hope that the Snapdragon-devices could get along with my desires here...

Thanks for any input!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Um. No on Tuxedo.

The work Tuxedo is doing is on drivers for their own hardware. It has nothing to do with core Snapdragon SoC support and will do little to help other vendors. The delay has more to do with their internal priorities than anything else.

Core X Elite support has been coming into the kernel since 6.8. Support for your hardware depends on the availability of a device tree. Probably the easiest road right now is Ubuntu:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800

The best supported hardware seems to be the Thinkpad T14s at this point. I am not sure where things are with Ubuntu 25.04. I would expect an update from Ubuntu soon.

Here is a more detailed account of support on a Yoga Slim and a screenshot of Chimera Linux running on HP OmniBook. So, Ubuntu is not the only option but it is likely the smoothest sailing.

https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/linux-on-yoga-7x-snapdragon/

It is early days for X Elite on Linux for sure. The same can be said for Apple Silicon of course.

[edit: it seems that Ubuntu 25.04 works out-of-the-box on X Elite: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-on-arm64-history-benefits-and-what-s-next/57775

Get it here: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ ]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I stand corrected