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The Lenovo X13s is basically a laptop version of the new dev kit, and it seems people are running Linux on it successfully [1][2], so hopefully they haven't done anything different with the dev kit.

  1: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/vh1xse/setup_linux_on_x13s_snapdragon_thinkpad_megathread/
  2: https://youtu.be/YWRbNogRBTw&t=1755


Linux on it is very broken in any number of situations, its basically at the level of the M1, which is at the moment probably a better choice if you want a 1/2 working machine.

Things you take for granted as working, and performing well, won't. Putting it another way, its at an early stage of bring up, on x86 you buy a laptop it will tend to mostly work in linux with a problem here/there that will likely get resolved over the next year or two. This is the same, only the level of busted is much worse, enough you probably won't want to actually use it as a daily driver.

It's a fine windows machine, and virtualizes linux just fine, but the same can be said of the M1 as well.




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