MX23 KDE on ARM

[MarieSophie]

Hello,
It's time to replace my T440p, and I'm looking at an ARM snapdragon
Does MX23 KDE installs and run "as it should" on ARM ?
The Internet only says that "OpenSuse does, so any other distro should"
Thks !
MSSG

[MarieSophie]

As my post may sound like, I have no experience with SnapDragon on a laptop, for me these are for cellphone and tablet,
So besides the compatibility with MX23, I would ask what are the pros and cons, or should I even consider it ?

[j2mcgreg]

At the present time, MX does not support ARM processors.

[Jerry3904]

Mx-23 RPi Respin with Xfce does, however, and it is easy to generate a KDE version from it. But it would bring all the Raspberry Pi baggage along with it so am not sure it would work. @dolphin_oracle likely knows.

[Stevo]

That's probably an arm64 processor, right? I've been building most packages also for that architecture, though we only do i386 and amd64 for AHS. AHS firmware does support all processors, though.

We still have to decide about what to do for Trixie-based MX 25 concerning i386, since Debian has already stopped supporting i386 kernels in Trixie as of 6.11.

[dolphin_oracle]

the new ms surface laptops are snapdragons.

No, we do not have any support for arm beyond the very specific raspberry pi respin.

there is a debian arm64 iso. not sure how it would work.

[Stevo]

The architecture is arm64, but I gather the SOC will be different for every manufacturer and support for those will have to make it into the kernel:

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog ... on-x-elite

[MarieSophie]

That's probably an arm64 processor, right? I've been building most packages also for that architecture, though we only do i386 and amd64 for AHS. AHS firmware does support all processors, though.

We still have to decide about what to do for Trixie-based MX 25 concerning i386, since Debian has already stopped supporting i386 kernels in Trixie as of 6.11.

TY,
It would be: Snapdragon® X Elite X1E-78-100 Processor (3.40 GHz)

But if MX23 doesn't support it, I will wait .. a bit

[timkb4cq]

I know a lot of Snapdragon X support was introduced in the 6.10 & 6.11 kernels but I don't think the full hardware complement of most of the Snapdragon® X Elite X1E-78-100 laptops has support yet. Best wait a bit if you really want Linux on one.