The Linux Desktop: Arm’s Final Frontier David Jordan System76 Arm has Conquered Mobile Phones Tablets IoT Arm is on Servers #hat about the Desktop$ Chromebooks, Windows RT, etc. #hat about the Desktop$ Workstations… #hat System76 does Laptops, Desktops, Servers Ubunt! & Pop!_%S #hat System76 does The Linux Desktop is our bread and butter. #hat System76 does We begin offerin' the latest Ubunt! the da) it comes out. LTS & c!rrent 6-month release %op&'(S )7.)+ Pop Theme Pop#$Shop (software center) Alt/tab & workspaces behavior Intel/.1D and NVIDIA ISOs %op&'(S ),*+- %!t+of+the+box 4!ll Disk 5ncryption s!pport 1i&ed HiDPI+LoDPI confi'!ration Power profiles + 8P Switchin' The (pen Desktop S)stem96 is bringing design and manu(acturing in-ho!se Open hardware components Desktops soon, laptops later. #hat do System76 .ustomers want$ Per(ormance Battery Life – .rm could help! R.1 ; seriousl), all the R.1 Desktop vs Mobile Di((erent life c)cle, !se cases, and replacement patterns. Mobile Two year cycle, One Device/ ser 5ncoura'e !sers to b!) new devices to get s!pport for new OS Desktop 4ive+ year c)cle, M!ltiple0 ser sers expect older hardware to work with latest %S releases. C!stomers bu) next laptop long be(ore their c!rrent laptop 'oes E%L. Desktop Continued hardware+OS s!pport adds significant value to our products. Graphics Card 1lues The Linux desktop is onl) as 'ood as the 'raphics support. 6istoricall) the GPU driver sit!ation has been pretty bad. Graphics Card 1lues Upgrading to a new Linux kernel is painless in x8* land. Intel and 2VIDIA keep drivers !p+to+date even on old GPUs. Graphics Card 1lues 6istoricall) the GPU driver sit!ation on Arm SoCs has been pretty bad. e.g. Power3R (Intel Atom too) The #ay Forward Selecting only vendors who provide consistent driver s!pport The #ay Forward 4irst+part) open source drivers 1ake any proprietar) drivers freel)+redistributable And maintain them! The #ay Forward Track upstream kernel development Test Ub!ntu, etc. for regressions durin2 development c)cle 4ile b!'s and fix regressions Let’s make Linux 3Just #ork” together! ● Image credits: – Decade City - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24477019 – closari & Anna Frodesiak, CC BY 2.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_Chromebook.jpg .