Snapdragon Linux support on desktop

joboy · 01-20-2023, 09:31 PM

Hi there,

I looked around trying to find any ARM based notebook and the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 being one of the very few with Snapdragon CPU, it came with Windows with Linux subsystem, but I did not see much info about installing full Linux on it, it seems Linux support on Snagdragon still lacking, any comment ?

business_kid · 01-21-2023, 02:04 PM

You don't say which snapdragon, but for sure aarch64 is the same on snapdragon.

Every Arm system has it's own peculiarities on bootup, however, unless they are certified "Arm system ready" (or "Arm server ready"??). You could do worse than look in the slarm64 forum because that has binary images for more setups than any I know of.

joboy · 01-22-2023, 01:00 AM

The Galaxy Book 2 as mentioned I am looking into, it is a very capable notebook running on Snapdragon 850

rokytnji · 01-22-2023, 08:06 AM

Good Luck

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Yoga-C630-Linux-EC

It's not a galaxy 2. Not a Ubuntu fan lately but the next link has a quick how to for ubuntu.

https://www.techradar.com/news/some-...x-with-caveats

I see some of the IBM yoga users posting on debian in arm site comment sections

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My laptop (with which I’m writing this message) is a Lenovo Yoga C630 (the 13-inch version, there is a 15-inch one with the same model namewhich is x86-based), and it uses Linux. The CPU is a Snapdragon 850. The installer I used is _almost-almost-almost_ Debian’s (this is, it installs a couple of firmware-related packages from Linaro repositories). There are several hardware-related glitches, and some devices are just not recognized/declared on the devicetree, but the computer works quite snappily; it is not a compiling powerhorse, but it serves very good for most tasks I require from it.

You can look for further information in https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/ or in the #aarch64-laptops channel in irc.oftc.net.

My chromebook I am posting is intel and I am on antiX. Which does not do arm builds. Hopefully the next link will help you after you install something later on.

https://www.linaro.org/downloads/

joboy · 01-22-2023, 11:38 PM

Thank guys for the response, I am trying to replace my everyday computer with the Pi but it was way too slow for most task, so I look for something else out of the Intel camp and the Galaxy book seems to fit the bill, my ultimate goal is to do computing w/o Intel and m$, I know this sounds quite impossible as m$ is huge, but I still wanted to try as I had enough of it, and I find ARM is quite efficient as far as I used.

business_kid · 01-23-2023, 04:16 AM

I don't know if your budget runs to it, but basically any M1/M2 Mac laptop beats the best x86 laptop hands down as regards battery life & performance. Graphics are behind, but getting there on Asahi Linux. Linus runs Fedora on his, although I believe the graphics suck.