Fedora Asahi on an M1 Mac. It’s flawless apart from the still missing driver support for displays over usb-C (yes there is an experimental branch, no I’m not compiling my own kernel on the machine I rely upon for uni)
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I've been running Ubuntu on my pinebook pro. It's quite usable. I also put the ssd adapter in it. That helps a lot with firefox loading super slow but it also munches the battery.
I run Armbian on a Pinebook Pro. Its not fast but it runs well.
Years ago i managed to run Gentoo on an Asus Transformer tablet. Pretty shitty experience due to the low spec hardware (1gb ram, shitty slow uSD storage)
Still an awesome experience. Ithink compiling Firefox took one week, and it didn't run smooth at all. I remember also setting up swap on a USB thumb drive.
Go figure.
I still have the image and stuff somewhere. Not the tabled unfortunately
Yes. Gentoo on an arm Chromebook. Plasma. Runs fairly well. Battery lasts forever.
I ran Debian on my Pinebook Pro until it tied about 6 month ago. Was painfully slow but it did kind of work.
That’s a really good question as I was also curious about it since we only hear about Asahi on the M Macs.
I don’t know what you can run on the Snapdragons Linux wise..