RTX Spark is a DGX Spark in a laptop – and the DGX Spark already runs Linux. Will Nvidia let us have it, or is this Windows on ARM’s fourth failed attempt?

Nvidia’s RTX Spark (N1X) is essentially the GB10 from the DGX Spark: 20 Arm cores, a Blackwell GPU, up to 128 GB of unified memory. The closest thing to Apple Silicon outside a Mac.

Every launch device ships with Windows 11 on Arm. Microsoft has been trying to make Windows on Arm happen since Windows RT in 2012, then Windows 10 on Arm, then Copilot+ with Snapdragon X. It has never really caught on, and it still depends on x86 emulation and on third parties porting their software.

Meanwhile, the same silicon already runs Linux in the DGX Spark, where Arm is a first-class citizen and most of the AI stack is native anyway.

What we know so far:

No official Linux support has been announced for RTX Spark laptops
The public Linux driver supports GB10 but doesn’t list N1X device IDs yet
There are already “\[N1x Linux\]” issues on Nvidia’s own GitHub, so someone is clearly running it internally

Questions:

Will Nvidia ship official Linux support, or leave it to WSL?
Will OEMs offer Linux SKUs (Dell, Lenovo, System76?), or will we be fighting the bootloader and device tree?
If Windows on Arm stalls again, could Linux end up being the better OS for this hardware?

Anyone already running Linux on a DGX Spark? How’s the experience?

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