Qualcomm is a “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you don’t fool me twice” kind of situation. So many horrible experiences in the past that people are going to be hesitant.

Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems. But it will take time to repair their reputation in the PC market.

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thewebguyd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They burned me with the first gen Snapdragon X Elite. Before the various laptops with it were out they promised Linux support. Here we are, years alter, still no fully OOTB support. Ironically, the GPU firmware were just mainlined in the kernel 4 months ago, but they still haven't done the same for the 1st gen X elite.

Tuxedo computers tried and didn't succeed either.

I will never buy Qualcomm again. I avoid them on phones as well by just buying Apple. They do not support their hardware beyond the release.

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jeroenhd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> I avoid them on phones as well by just buying Apple

To each their own, but I don't recall Apple ever mainlining any of their drivers on Linux. You're rightfully angry on the laptop side of things, but Apple is much worse than Qualcomm when it comes to open source support for their phones.

Qualcomm probably shouldn't have promised Linux support in the first place. Everyone seems to love Apple's hardware even though you're practically stuck with macOS. Had Qualcomm just stuck to Windows-only, they would've probably received a much better reception by the tech press.

	▲	mlinhares 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apple doesn’t sell general purpose computers outside of their own hardware so this doesn’t make any sense.
	▲	dismalaf 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At least Apple tells you they don't support anything except their own OS, Qualcomm just pretends to offer support.

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derefr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you say more? I don't have any memory of Qualcomm-related scandals(?), but I just read the news; I've never really been a user of their chips.

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re-thc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems.

Not really, the 1st. iteration got stuck in legal land and other delays.

	▲	bradfa an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They hired a good number of smart people who know how to do open source. So they’re trying. We shall see if it works.