Linux on (non-Apple) ARM, what is the current status? (tux.social)

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Linux on (non-Apple) ARM, what is the current status?

Qualcomm Snapdragon, Ampere and maybe others. Support of Snapdragons was said to be quite bad due to the lack of upstream "giving a damn about Linux".

Has this changed?

#Linux #ARM #Qualcomm #Snapdragon #Ampere

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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 3 days ago

pine64 has quite a few devices running different distros, but thats more like low end devices (thoigh they have a tablet, a laptop, phones etc.)

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