Ramkumar Ramachandra on Nostr: So the #Qualcomm #Snapdragon X Elite release still doesn’t mean that we will have ...
So the #Qualcomm #Snapdragon X Elite release still doesn’t mean that we will have usable #Linux laptops anytime soon. Apparently, they’ve cut some shady deals with #Microsoft and other companies to OEM-sign the GPU and provide a non-ACPI boot up process. The #kernel community seems pretty annoyed.
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