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Snapdragon is an ARM CPU which means if you can find a distro to run on it, it'll likely be an Android custom ROM, whereas Celeron is x86 and should run most Linux distros without issue.
Lol, this is not even remotely accurate. I run fleets of arm64 machines all over the place. Pretty much every distro out there builds arm64/aarch64 packages. Wherever you read this from needs to be shut down.
Because I know what I'm talking about, you trust me less? Sounds like a bad life decision. All you have to do is spend 5 seconds learning to confirm I'm correct. Don't just blindly trust comments on the Internet based on your feelings:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm
Hell...surely you're aware all Raspberry Pi's are arm64/aarch64, right? The original commentor just has zero idea WTF they are talking about with the Android nonsense.
Fair. I was running on like no sleep when I wrote that comment, so I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Thanks for the links.
Yeah linux support for ARM SOCs is not ideal. There might be some fork of the kernel working with specific proprietary driver blobs. But in a few years its basically abandonware.
RISC-V is what we should try to make happen as a replacement for x86, instead of yet another proprietary IP.
The snapdragon is for the Chromebook model, so it is already running Linux, but it it just not very compatible?
Chromebooks use a customized Linux kernel with often proprietary code included from the manufacturer. Same thing as Android in that sense.
Upstream Linux, using mostly open-source code, does not have these bits of proprietary code in most cases. This means that ARM devices are frequently missing some drivers under mainline Linux, so things like TouchPad, wifi, or even GPU might be partially or fully unsupported.
Armbian Linux supports a large number of devices using mainline Linux with some tweaks to it pre-configured, but typically you're not going to get every feature of the hardware supported until several years after its release (like 5+).
x86 on the other hand usually will just work out of the box, especially Lenovo laptops.
If you are not techy stay away from Chromebooks. mrchromebox.tech offers custom firmware which allows you to run real googlefree Linux on them, but still.
I havent found one that is worth the price. They are often unrepairable, have soldered everything and on purpose too low specs. Like 128GB of storage is rare, and that is a minimum for anything real. 16GB RAM is almost never available.
This is not true at all. There are tons of Linux Distros running natively on ARM.
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.