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    4 days ago

    With this new driver, system LEDs, audio LEDs, extra keyboard keys, keyboard backlight, and other features are working.

    And this over a year after this was released. Our whole office skipped this gen for new hardware because Linux support wasn’t ready. Additionally, reports were that performance on Linux was/is abysmal for the capabilities. Generally, I feel it was a mistake to prioritize all new ARM and AI CPUs for windows, with lagging and shit linux support until now, as mostly enthusiastic would-be customers are AI devs/researchers, and they often prefer some Linux variant as it “just works” with most tooling. The ‘normie’ office windows user does not give 2shits about locally accelerated inference. Why chipmakers fumbeled the ball so badly with the new AI accelerator / NPU CPUs is beyond me.