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New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Switches To Linux 6.17 Kernel
This week a new Ubuntu X1E Concept ISO was published for Ubuntu 25.04 ARM64 with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop optimizations
Additionally, the new X1E ISO is finally working again on the Acer Swifth 14 AI laptop that I have used for my Snapdragon X Elite Linux testing. The plucky-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250827.iso image is now available for those wanting the latest Ubuntu Linux experience catering to the Snapdragon X Elite laptops. Post-install you still need to install qcom-firmware-extract and run it for those laptops (most models out there, unfortunately) without any upstream linux-firmware support by extracting the firmware files from your Windows on ARM partition.
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