A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop

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Thanks for sharing the experience! At Rustup we're also getting ARM64 Windows-related requests recently, so I'm very curious about how well these machines actually do as a daily dev workstation. Looks like your Yoga 7x performs even better than I thought it would!

I'd like to add that actually there is an official prebuilt Rustup binary available for you at https://win.rustup.rs/aarch64, maybe that will lead to less translation overhead for your Rust workflow :)

Thanks for the pointer to the aarch64 build of rustup. Are there plans to update this bit of the website to point at that version in the future? https://files.wezm.net/forums/Screenshot%202024-07-16%20at%2...

The site's source code is already updated, but unfortunately the website itself is refreshed per Rustup release, so we might have to wait for a bit longer...

Did you try the experimental, raw disk image for a Debian installer that Snapdragon provided? https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

I tried it, but had the same issue with the reboot loop. The latest daily build of Debian as of 7/29/24 will boot into Grub, but hangs as soon as it tries to load anything else.

Thank you for the article, very interesting!

How is the copilot key recognized on OpenBSD? Does it appear like an extra Function key?

I haven't tried it in OpenBSD but this article claims that it's mapped to Super+LShift+F23: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-copilo...

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