Can anyone tell me if this one supports fedora out of the box.
I was confused between 2 devices one intel 125H and one 7730U devices but now Microsoft released snapdragon pc if it supports linux mainly fedora i can switch to ubuntu if fedora does not support.
I need info about think kindly give me information as i have cancelled the previous order and there is an offer going on so i can redeem that.
Surface laptops always have, to put it nicely, bad GNU/Linux support. There’s a whole bunch of custom hardware that doesn’t play nice. Go for another OEM if you really want an ARM laptop. Also remember that M1 and M2 Macs are (mostly) supported by Asahi, which is a Fedora Remix now. You can still buy the M2 MacBook Air new from Apple, if you wanted to go that route. Check this list for compatibility:
I know that you have to install the surface kernel for that to actually work with your system but is it still true for the new Snapdragon arm cpu’s.
I have physically visited a stored nearby and after handling the device I like how it looks but there is noway i will use windows .
I have a mac m2 mini but i want to laptop.
Like I said, the M2 MBA is still for sale new from Apple, and you can always buy used.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be. Surface Laptop is a Surface Laptop.
please check here …
Mainline Linux supports ARM, Raspberry Pi has probably been the most popular thing to run Linux on too.
Generally speaking, I expect ARM64 images of Linux to boot on modern ARM boards without too much issue. It’s the modern hardware on the laptop itself I’d question having general Linux support (stuff like I2C could have specialized stuff tailored for Windows ARM or have unexpected PCI IDs and existing drivers might not work, etc)
Although, if you want the most up-to-date and solution: Buy it and try it (doubt anyone’s tried F41 beta on Snapdragon outside discussion lists), and return it quick if it doesn’t work out 
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So, support is landing upstream for snapdragonX laptops, but it’s still
very early days and lots of things don’t work out of the box. ;(
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20240826-topic-sl7-v2-5-c32ebae78789@quicinc.com/
is where initial/basic support for ths surface 7th edition was landed,
but sitll lots of things likely don’t work.
I have a lenovo yoga slim 7x (another snapdragonX laptop), and it still
needs you to copy firmware from windows, boot with various command line
options and a few things still don’t work at all (sound, webcam).
So, I don’t think I would suggest getting one as a daily driver right
now, but probibly Fedora 42 will have much better support.
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