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Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode


Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops

Some of the latest features now enabled for Ubuntu Linux on the Snapdragon X1 laptops include the embedded controller (EC) within the Yoga Slim models, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s fingerprint reader, real-time clock (RTC) support, and experimental Iris hardware video decoding support. Discussions over hardware working or not with the Ubuntu Snapdragon X1 Elite images can be found via this Discourse thread. Those that happen to have one of these Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops and wanting to try Ubuntu on it can find the very latest ISOs via this ubuntu-concept directory.

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