# EOS for ThinkBook T16 G7 Snapdragon X Plus **URL:** \ **Category:** Installation\ **Created:** [April 28, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769 "2025-04-28T12:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/alteredstate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/1 "2025-04-28T12:11:30Z")
Hi everybody, as per the [request](https://endeavouros.com/endeavouros-arm) for owners of ARM devices from major brands to get in touch, I’d be happy to help with testing EOS ARM on my new ThinkBook T16 G7 with a Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100. Gladly let me know where to direct feedback or anything specifically that’d be helpful for y’all to be tested 😃 Kind wishes ---
**Author:** ![Moonbase59](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/moonbase59/32/112659_2.png) [@Moonbase59](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Moonbase59)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/2 "2025-04-28T13:46:26Z")
Yeah, _if_ it doesn’ŧ take away too many resources from a small team, I’d like to see a modern OS like EOS on such devices. They usually have crazy battery life and are a perfect choice if you have to work on long road trips, flights, or just out in the wild. I still love my old Ideapad D330-10IGM Convertible (x64 though), just because I can work 6–12 hours straight with one charge. Using ARM, newer devices can go 20–30 hours, which would just be perfect. If not restricted to Windows. ---
**Author:** ![sradjoker](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/sradjoker/32/64224_2.png) [@sradjoker](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/sradjoker)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/3 "2025-05-04T12:58:32Z")
It’s on my to do list, since I also have a Snapdragon Laptop, but the current state of development and support is very rudimentary since there is no kernel support yet. For now I’m running :enos: arm using WSL on my Snapdragon Laptop. ---
**Author:** ![alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/alteredstate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/4 "2025-07-28T09:24:03Z")
Heads up: it appears that with kernel 6.16 (released yesterday 2025-07-27) support for Snapdragon X1P42100 was added. > **[Linux 6.16 Enabling Support For 11 More SoCs, Sophgo SG2044 & More...](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-SoCs)** > > All of the big SoC and DeviceTree board updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.16 kernel including support for a number of new Arm SoCs as well as a RISC-V server SoC ---
**Author:** ![sradjoker](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/sradjoker/32/64224_2.png) [@sradjoker](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/sradjoker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/5 "2025-07-29T18:43:49Z")
I’ll take a look soon. Have any other distros announced support for Snapdragon X Elite laptops? This includes the bootloader. I heard that the bootloader is different for different Laptops. Also have you heard of anyone dual booting? I can’t currently use my Snapdragon Laptop completely for testing since its my daily driver. Would love a safe method to test on my current machine. ---
**Author:** ![alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@alteredstate](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/alteredstate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/eos-for-thinkbook-t16-g7-snapdragon-x-plus/70769/6 "2025-07-31T12:31:20Z")
I believe that Ubuntu 25.04 has some support for Snapdragon X Elite devices (using kernel 6.14 afaik) but I couldn’t get it to boot on my machine so I think they’re definitely missing X Plus support for now. Maybe the daily build of Ubuntu 25.10 sports more support but iirc they’re not using a newer kernel (6.14.0 I think) than 25.04. Other than that I’m not aware of any distros outside of Arch and probably other rolling ones that even come with a kernel beyond 6.14, unfortunately. As for the bootloader I’m afraid I’m not sure either. Sorry to not be of more help! I appreciate your work very much!