“The actual fact it is attainable in any respect is a credit score to the ingenuity of the open-source neighborhood,” writes the weblog OMG Ubuntu:
Switchroot is an open-source mission that enables Android and Linux-based distros like Ubuntu to run on the Nintendo Change — completely not one thing Nintendo approves of a lot much less helps, endorses, or encourages, and many others! I lined the loophole that made this attainable again in 2018. Again then the NVIDIA Tegra X1-powered Nintendo Change was nonetheless new and Linux help for a lot of the console’s inner {hardware} in a formative state (a well mannered option to say ‘not all the things labored’). However as the recognition of Nintendo’s handheld console ballooned (to understate it) so the ‘different OS’ Change scene grew, and earlier than lengthy Linux help for Change {hardware} was in full bloom…
Plenty of Linux for Switchroot (L4S) distributions have since been launched, designated as Linux for Tegra (L4T) builds. As these can boot from a microSD card it is even attainable to dualboot the Change OS with Linux, which is neat! Not too long ago, a recent set of L4T Ubuntu photos have been launched primarily based on the most recent Ubuntu 24.04 LTS launch. These builds work on all Change variations, from the OG (exploit-friendly) unit by to newer, patched fashions (the place a modchip is required)…
I am instructed the entire Nintendo Change inner {hardware} now works beneath Linux, together with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sleep mode, accelerated graphics, the official dock… All the things, principally. And regardless of being a 7 yr outdated ARM gadget the efficiency is claimed to stay first rate.
“Upstream snafus have delayed the discharge of builds with GNOME Shell…”