I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey!<p>Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off github because I had wiped Windows and all partitions into oblivion.<p>I was looking for the bliss of fan-less linux with ARM. The joy! [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800" rel="nofollow">https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e...</a><p>[2] the fans are ON permanently
Asahi still doesn't support a lot of basic things like: external displays, Thunderbolt, hardware accelerated video decoding, 120hz refresh rate, etc.
Because at the time of my purchase I mistakenly believed that fan-less was a given for an ARM laptop; and that ARM laptops were a lot more supported than Apple products; some big names were using ARM linux and raving about it.<p>It's still is a great laptop and I recommend it for the hardware overall, but not fan-less indeed.
I have a gorgeous Surface Pro 11 X1 Elite that can run <i>just enough</i> Linux to tease me with how beautiful it could be, but it's still unstable enough that I can't daily it.<p><i>Torture</i>.