Woah, this is amazing. I’ve been looking for an ARM Linux machine for a while and ended up about to get M2 Pros in a rack running Asahi. It has been near impossible to get a Snapdragon Elite machine. The IdeaCentre or whatever is 2x the cost / performance and as far as I know is poorly supported.

This changes the game. I’d rather use native Linux than Asahi (though the latter is amazing).

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moondev 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Get a DGX spark.

Ships with aarch64 Ubuntu 24.04.

Tons of cores and RAM.

Very quiet and small

UEFI bootloader - I installed Ubuntu 25.10 and ESXi arm edition just by booting the ISO

usb-c power input (kinda cool)

Insane connectx 200GbE RoCE networking

10GbE Ethernet

Oh and an nvidia gpu with cuda and access to 128GB of unified memory

It would be perfect if it had some kind of BMC or IPMI/redfish and an exposed PCIE slot. But this thing is an awesome arm64 workstation no doubt.

May try to install to a USB drive and hang another gpu off the nvme port just to see what happens

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Keyframe 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This might sound silly question, but those of you who have digits/spark machine, has anyone run Fedora on it? I kind of ran away from Ubuntu back to Fedora because reasons. Bonus question, far-fetched, steam and games with FEX?

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didip an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it easy to buy a DGX Spark?

	▲	moondev 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My microcenter has nvidia OEM flavor in stock. There are also flavors from all the other OEMs that differ slightly on cooling but mainly on chassis design.

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SSLy 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems incredible but uhm, way out of my mitteleuropaishe budget

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jabedude 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does this actually translate into any kind of probability of a manufacturer making a device with this chip?

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imiric an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think this changes the game as much as you think.

AFAIU, the biggest challenge of running Linux on ARM machines is supporting the devicetree of each machine. After all, there is mainline kernel support for previous Qualcomm chips, yet very few machines with those chips can actually run Linux distros.

So this is good news, but in practical terms it's just a marketing piece.

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3836293648 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is Asahi not native?

	▲	bigyabai 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The drivers, while impressively reverse-engineered, are basically alpha-quality by Linux standards. Even well-studied M1 machines will have spotty support in comparison to what an OEM can provide officially.
	▲	vlovich123 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Presumably OP meant a Linux distro using a normal upstream kernel?