Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor::Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerf

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      1 year ago

      Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they’d be okay with Gnome as well.

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        If they sell snapdragon laptops with Linux preinstalled people would buy, sadly they’re more likely to include Windows (which has bad support).

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        I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn’t be interested in a laptop running android.

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          Yet Chromebooks have been a major element for the past 5 years, with more units sold than Apple. I know it’s not technically GNU/Linux. But there’s still a Linux core underneath required to run Chrome OS.

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            ChromeOS is popular because it’s included in cheap laptops and the operating system is essentially idiot proof (at the cost of being able to do practically nothing)