Tuxedo Computers, the brand known for making high-performance Linux laptops powered by its own TuxedoOS, has officially announced that it has stopped work on a planned Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop, citing development difficulties as the reason for stopping the project. Some of the issues Tuxedo ran into were caused by incompatibility and a lack of driver support, while others were seemingly just platform limitations and a lack of platform maturity. One of the main complications Tuxedo cites is a lack of support for BIOS updates under Linux, but this lack of support also extends to virtualization, fan control, and high-speed USB4 ports, at least given the prospective launch timeline. Tuxedo also explains that the long battery life—the main draw of Arm-powered laptops—simply wasn't panning out on Linux.

Supposedly, Tuxedo would require "several more months" of development to be able to deliver a retail unit, which would mean anyone buying the Snapdragon Tuxedo laptop would immediately have very outdated hardware. Instead, Tuxedo has left the door open to being able to resume development on the system if and when it makes sense to do so. Tuxedo has, in the meantime, committed to contributing the device tree and any progress it has made during the unrealized laptop's development to the mainline Linux kernel so that the community can benefit from the work the company did manage to complete. There's also a non-zero chance that the development will be picked up by enterprising community members, eventually resulting in the maturation of Snapdragon support on Linux.
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