Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.

After a year and a half of work, Tuxedo announced that it is discontinuing work on its planned Arm laptop based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon System-on-Chip. There is some good news mingled in with the bad, though. The company is planning to submit its support code upstream to help others trying to support computers based around the device – and in a somewhat unusual move, it hinted that the Medion SPRCHRGD 14 was the model it aimed to OEM.

The device was to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, whose release The Register covered in October 2023. In November that year, that specific SoC was mentioned at the Ubuntu Summit as a target platform. We reported that Tuxedo's machine was coming in June 2024. Back then, the ...