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Thinkpad has a ARM Snapdragon model and people have been working on it in Linux for a while. Linux support is unofficial, and still crap, years after release.

For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431710 ("Linux on the Arm-Based ThinkPad X13S: Getting There")

System76 hopefully listening!

(To prevent rumors, I’ve never seen them mention arm support before… maybe someday)

I don't think there's much System76 can do if the ARM SOC vendors aren't willing to cooperate by openly releasing code and documentation for their parts.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mainline-Linux-2024

> But still a work-in-progress is audio support, DP Alt-Mode, enabling the DSPs, USB-C power delivery, and GPU acceleration.

AKA still garbage.

Usually vendors of ARM64 chips provide the Linux support straight from the off. What's the story here that Qualcomm doesn't?

Rumors are of mainline support pretty quickly.

But the proof will be when it actually happens.

Hopefully it gets chrome OS support so that it has official Linux drivers.