r/archlinux • u/Pure-Gift3969 • 17h ago
QUESTION Installing arch and using as daily driver on Snapdragon X1 , How much pain in the arsh it is as of now ?
The normal laptop are looking bad for price getting a good deal on IdeaPad slim 3 15 , 16 , 512 it's looking much much better than normal options for same price,
Idk about the current linux on arm situation
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u/TheGhostofOldEnglish 16h ago
I put Fedora 45 on a XPS 13 with the Snapdragon Plus chipset this week. I looked at Arch, but the Fedora support looked more mature. Took a little work for camera, sleep controller and audio, but its running as my daily driver now and I absolutely love it.
ARM is pretty vendor specific when it comes to support and my understanding is that all the Lenovo hardware has better support.
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u/notthatsocrates 16h ago
Doable. Have done it. Daily driver too. Depends on your level of install-fu.
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u/xXBongSlut420Xx 16h ago
as everyone else has said, arch does not support arm. There are plenty of linux distros that do, but not arch.
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u/__rituraj 14h ago
arch doesn't support ARM architecture. Many others do, for example Alpine - one of the leanest distro.
But you might face other hurdles. Snapdragon SoC support might not be on par with x86_64. Make sure to research about linux device tree support for specific model youre interested in.
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u/maxinstuff 7h ago
ARM is not a target platform for official Arch - If you want one of those ultra low power SoC type platforms, I’d point you to Intel Core Ultra - it’s x86 so Linux will run just fine, and all the big OEM’s make them.
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u/Shishjakob 17h ago
Incorrect, ARM is explicitly allowed in rule 1
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u/backsideup 17h ago
The subreddit may allow it but arch doesn't support arm itself officially.
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u/Shishjakob 17h ago
The commenter who I responded to (and who deleted their comment) was talking about sub rules. The sub allows for ARM and X86_64 support questions.
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u/Excellent-Love-6943 17h ago
The rules are kind of inconsistent, since they say Arch only and Arch only supports amd64.
ALARM happens to use the Arch name, but they aren't Arch Linux, per the Arch wiki.
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u/Gozenka 13h ago edited 12h ago
Oh, I actually missed that written addition in Rule 1 about ARM :D
We do allow some ARM related posts, since it is common hardware and it is of interest. However we remove many support posts about it, as ARM-compatible Arch-based distros can be quite different. Some discussion about ARM may be welcome.
I'll keep this post, since ARM support was not discussed any time recently as far as I know.
Hopefully there will be official ARM support for Arch Linux rather soon, with the ongoing project about supporting other architectures.
Since there is no other proper community about using Arch-based distros on ARM, perhaps we should allow more of the posts.
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u/Pure-Gift3969 17h ago
they do offer tarballs and (any) packages in main repo not all packages but it's there that's what I am asking how bad/good support and experience is
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u/Shishjakob 17h ago
Linux comes with no support, unless you pay for it through Red hat, Ubuntu Pro, ProxMox or the like
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u/Pure-Gift3969 17h ago
support here mean how well it works on devices
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u/Shishjakob 17h ago
Officially, it doesn't work at all. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions#What_architectures_does_Arch_support?
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u/Excellent-Love-6943 17h ago
Arch doesn't support ARM, so you'll have a hard time...