[cowmix]

When this platform was heralded as the “AI” desktop, I pre-ordered both the dev kit and a laptop. Like many of you, I’ve experienced a months-long delay in the delivery of the dev kits. Although I STILL don't have my devkit, I received my laptop pretty much on time. -- and I quickly discovered that despite Windows on ARM (WOA) being over a decade old, the support for open-source tooling is as complete as Swiss cheese. Key Python modules are missing, and even the Git command-line (git bash) client isn’t functional yet!

I mean, forget about basic open-source development, let alone performing AI inference work on your new Snapdragon laptop.

After some digging, I’ve learned that just four overworked developers in Prague make up the core team unclogging this tooling dependency log-jam. Gah!

For what it’s worth, WSL2 (Linux on Windows) actually runs quite impressively on the Snapdragon X.

[nine_k]

Why run Windows on ARM, when Linux on ARM is so.much more mature? Or are you buildings a Windows-specific product?

[cowmix]

My plan was to run the laptop Windows and the 'devkit' Linux. This first batch of laptops (AFAICT) can NOT dual boot.

My thinking is this, if Windows ARM is a success -- there will be more units out there that can ALSO run Linux too. If Windows ARM is a failure, then Linux will suffer too.

[andrewmcwatters]

> After some digging, I’ve learned that just four overworked developers in Prague make up the core team unclogging this tooling dependency log-jam. Gah!

What an embarrassment. So basically, it’s not a serious product.