These devices are nightmares. I'm sure things will pay off at some point but this feels like all those years where everyone was cursing Nvidia on Linux and praising AMD's dedication to open source but my computer would constantly lock up regardless until I switched to Nvidia. There was this massive disconnect between my experience and what everyone told me was best supported.

Similarly, I'm constantly hearing about Qualcomm's renewed interest in Linux and this and that and how the X2 Elite will be fully supported but I have never known them to be like this. A decade or so ago we were trying to work for a school project on one of their dev kits and the documentation was so sparse.

Then I see that the Snapdragon X Elite comes in this Ideacentre stuff but looking online no one has gotten Linux anywhere close to as good as Linux is on a Mac M2. That, for me, is the marker. If a Mac can run Linux better than whatever chipset you've released, it's just not hardware worth buying. If you're not Apple, you have to support Linux. Otherwise, to borrow Internet lingo, you're "deeply unserious".