{"id":223664,"date":"2026-03-14T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/trying-out-snapdragon-x-elite-with-the-acer-swift-14-ai-laptop-on-ubuntu-26-04\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:30:11","slug":"trying-out-snapdragon-x-elite-with-the-acer-swift-14-ai-laptop-on-ubuntu-26-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/trying-out-snapdragon-x-elite-with-the-acer-swift-14-ai-laptop-on-ubuntu-26-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Ubuntu-26.04\">Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Ubuntu-26.04\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Ubuntu-26.04<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-14 10:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December was my last round of Snapdragon X Elite Linux testing with it ending 2025 disappointing for the Snapdragon X Elite Linux experience and performance. The performance had regressed to be even less competitive against Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen laptops and other issues persisted. So I was eager to see how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking now if it improved the experience and also in wanting to compare the Qualcomm Snapdragon X performance against the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 &#8220;Panther Lake&#8221; on Linux.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu builds over 2025 for the Snapdragon X laptops varied in quality\/support and in testing those encountered different issues. So when it came to trying out an Ubuntu 26.04 daily state this week on the same hardware, I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect.\n<\/p>\n<p>Using the Ubuntu 26.04 ARM64 desktop daily ISO, I booted up on the Acer Swift 14 AI Snapdragon X Elite laptop and proceeded to install. It was off to a typical working experience, phew!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=ubuntu_2604_qcom_5_med\" alt=\"qcom-firmware-extract fail\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After booting into the Ubuntu 26.04 installation and installing qcom-firmware-extract from the archive to fetch the necessary Qualcomm Snapdragon X firmware assets from the Windows 11 installation on the device, that&#8217;s where things began to go downhill. Previous Ubuntu 24.xx\/25.xx releases had worked fine with qcom-firmware-extract on this laptop while now ahead of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS I get: error: Device is currently not supported. The qcom-firmware-extract worked fine before but now is no longer working for grabbing the firmware assets from Windows 11. The firmware situation remains a headache for Snapdragon X Linux users with the exception of one ThinkPad laptop where Lenovo graciously permitted the firmware to&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Ubuntu-26.04\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=ubuntu_2604_qcom_5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-223664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223666,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223664\/revisions\/223666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}