My new laptop

[Bill Thorson]

Folks,

I thought I would fill you in on the new laptop 
<https://www.costco.com/lenovo-ideapad-5x-14-2-in-1-touchscreen-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-plus-oled-1920-x-1200-windows-11-copilot+-pc.product.4000305603.html> 
that Santa gave me.  I've been busy for a couple weeks but needed to get 
this returned soon if Linux wouldn't work. I wanted to run primarily 
Linux but thought I'd keep some of the disk as Windows.

It won't work yet.  I finally got Debian and then Ubuntu sticks to be 
recognized by the boot screen (F12) but neither would boot.  Both went 
to never-never land.  The problem is the chip is too new.  It's a 
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip with 8 cores. However, it seems too new.

Supposedly, Qualcomm hacked Debian enough to get it to run when they 
announced the chip.  Usually, Qualcomm never shows Linux and only 
Windows.  The Qualcomm mods have not reached the Linux distributions 
yet.  With the right amount of hacking people got Debian 12 
<https://git.codelinaro.org/linaro/qcomlt/demos/debian-12-installer-image> 
and Ubuntu 24.10 
<https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800> 
to work.  I'm not anxious to do that.

I will return this nice laptop and try something else.

Thanks for all your help and ideas!

Bill
P.S. Sorry I offended some by using the term Windoz.  I only use Windows 
about once every 5-10 years and once I get in there my hate for it 
always grows😉

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