The Qualcomm CPUs look interesting. One assumes it’s a big deal to create software for an entirely new CPU architecture. Probably not much demand, either.
They are aarch64 processors, i.e. ARM-based.
Manjaro does offer releases for the 64-bit ARM architecture, but as you noted, there isn’t much of a demand for them.
Personally, I’d rather see RISC-V becoming mainstream. Unlike ARM, RISC-V is an entirely open architecture. 
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That’s probably why it’s not mainstream.
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It is all about the
– ABBA 1977
But you cannot buy happiness, you cannot buy good health, you cannot buy meaning into your life
We have saying in danish (I don’t know if there is an equivalent in other languages)
Man siger at penge ikke lugter, hvis det er sandt hvorfor sætte mange næsen op efter dem?
Google translate suggests the following translation
They say money doesn’t smell, if that’s true why do so many people turn up their noses at it?
My personal experience: Be content with your life, if you get the opportunity to improve your situation, grab it, otherwise be content as it is, make the best of it.
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the very nature of an “open” spec seems to be hurting it more than helping it. hopefully these kinks get sorted out soon.
To be fair, x86 was an open architecture as well. That’s why Intel tried a non-open successor to it, i.e. the Merced architecture, known commercially as Intel Itanium or IA64.
I’m not sure whether the vulnerabilities are the result of it being open, rather than that they’d be the result of the architecture having been largely ignored by the hardware-developing world over the years.
So Manjaro can run on Snapdragon? That’s good to know. Thanks.
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You can try - but I think you will be disappointed - and the Manjaro ARM repositories are unmaintained.
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