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One of the veery nice properties of the PC world is that CPUs are rather well documented, you can write drivers, a full OS, really low-level code for performance. Qualcom on the contrary has a secrecy culture which makes its SoC quite unappealing for the developers.

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+1. This is one of the most underappreciated things about the x86 CPU ecosystem. The documentation is usually solid, and all the Linux drivers are fully open-source and well maintained. Both AMD and Intel are almost always among the top contributors to each Linux kernel release. Hopefully Qualcomm follows suit, and does better than they do with Android... Closed source driver blobs are the worst. I personally wouldn't buy a desktop computer that doesn't at least have an option of running fully with open source drivers.

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