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Favourite GNU/Linux Laptop and "Linux Support" in Snapdragon
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Joshua Barretto ☛ My favourite laptop
I’m not a big owner of things, but the best laptop I’ve ever owned is a roughed-up 2015 Thinkpad X250.
For the flex, here it is running a GUI shell sat on top of the microkernel I’m currently working on (blog post about this incoming… eventually).
[...] I opted for Endeavour OS. In the usual Arch Linux tradition, it favours native package installs over sandboxed applications. As a result my install sits at around 30 GB. A 128 GB M.2 SSD raided from another second-hand machine is more than enough to cover that and everything I’m working on. -
Counterpoint Conversations: Snapdragon X Series, Powering AI PCs in the Agentic AI Era, Googlebook & Linux Support
At the Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Counterpoint’s Ritesh Bendre sat down with Nitin Kumar, VP of Product Management for Compute at Qualcomm, to discuss how the PC is evolving from the AI PC era to the agentic AI era. Nitin explains why AI performance is about more than NPU TOPS, how the Snapdragon X2 is designed for always-on AI workloads, and how Qualcomm is working with Google to enable new experiences on Googlebook, including Magic Pointer and Rambler. The discussion also touches on on-device vs. cloud AI, the latest Microsoft Surface devices with Snapdragon X2 Plus, 5G connectivity, and Qualcomm’s move towards native Linux support on Snapdragon X2 PCs.