A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop

[rami3l]

Thanks for sharing the experience! At Rustup we're also getting ARM64 Windows-related requests recently, so I'm very curious about how well these machines actually do as a daily dev workstation. Looks like your Yoga 7x performs even better than I thought it would!

I'd like to add that actually there is an official prebuilt Rustup binary available for you at https://win.rustup.rs/aarch64, maybe that will lead to less translation overhead for your Rust workflow :)

[wezm]

Thanks for the pointer to the aarch64 build of rustup. Are there plans to update this bit of the website to point at that version in the future? https://files.wezm.net/forums/Screenshot%202024-07-16%20at%2...

[benecollyridam]

Did you try the experimental, raw disk image for a Debian installer that Snapdragon provided? https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

[mnelly]

I tried it, but had the same issue with the reboot loop. The latest daily build of Debian as of 7/29/24 will boot into Grub, but hangs as soon as it tries to load anything else.

[sixfiveotwo]

Thank you for the article, very interesting!

How is the copilot key recognized on OpenBSD? Does it appear like an extra Function key?

[wezm]

I haven't tried it in OpenBSD but this article claims that it's mapped to Super+LShift+F23: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-copilo...