Back in mid-2024, the Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers teased plans for developing a Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop. Initially they hoped to have it out by Christmas 2024. That didn’t happen and now approaching Christmas 2025 they confirmed they have stopped their plans for shipping a Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop for Linux customers.
Earlier in 2025 they confirmed various obstacles they had been hitting with the Linux support around the Snapdragon X Elite effort. They did get to posting Linux kernel patches for the Device Tree on their planned laptop. As recently as in early November they posted the latest Linux DT patches for their ARM laptop with the effort appearing to still be ongoing — even with Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops for Windows on ARM now coming about.
Today though TUXEDO Computers announced they are discontinuing their Snapdragon X Elite effort. They have put the project on hold as it turned out to be “less suitable than expected”. They elaborated in today’s announcement:
“Development turned out to be challenging due to the different architecture, and in the end, the first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected. In particular, the long battery runtimes—usually one of the strong arguments for ARM devices—were not achieved under Linux. A viable approach for BIOS updates under Linux is also missing at this stage, as is fan control. Virtualization with KVM is not foreseeable on our model, nor are the high USB4 transfer rates. Video hardware decoding is technically possible, but most applications lack the necessary support.
Given these conditions, investing several more months of development time does not seem sensible, as it is not foreseeable that all the features you can rightfully expect would be available in the end. In addition, we would be offering you a device with what would then be a more than two-year-old Snapdragon X Elite (X1E), whose successor, the Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E), was officially introduced in September 2025 and is expected to become available in the first half of 2026.”
In TUXEDO’s announcement they do note that a resumption may be possible if the Snapdragon X2 Elite ends up being more Linux friendly and meeting their expectations. But for now at least their Snapdragon X Elite laptop efforts are over until they have had time to see if the X2 Elite situation would turn out any better.
