Acer · 2025
Acer Swift 14 AI (SF14-51, Core Ultra 7 258V)
A 2.8K OLED Lunar Lake machine with a 13-hour battery for around 1199 dollars, undercut on Linux by the IPU6 webcam that does not work in normal apps. Good value if you accept a USB cam and run kernel 6.12+.
Compiled from public sources and community data, not hands-on tested. What that means.
Best on fedora. Confidence: high
Scores
Specs
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 7 258V |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel Arc Graphics 140V (integrated) |
| RAM | 32 GB (soldered) |
| Storage | 1024 GB |
| Screen | 14" 2880x1800 @ 90Hz |
| Weight | 1.3 kg |
| Battery (real) | ~13 h |
Linux compatibility
- fedora Minor setup
- Wi-Fi
- works
- Bluetooth
- works
- Fingerprint
- needs tweak
- Webcam
- broken
- Audio
- needs tweak
- Suspend
- works
- ubuntu-lts Minor setup
- Wi-Fi
- works
- Bluetooth
- works
- Fingerprint
- needs tweak
- Webcam
- broken
- Audio
- needs tweak
- Suspend
- works
fedora: Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) wants kernel 6.12 or newer for the Arc 140V iGPU and battery behaviour, so Fedora 41+ over Ubuntu 24.04 GA. The OLED panel and s2idle are good. The catch is the same as every recent Intel thin-and-light: the webcam is an IPU6 MIPI sensor that needs the libcamera/intel-vsc stack and still does not work in normal video apps. Audio amp wants a UCM profile. Fingerprint enrols with fprintd after a quirk. Soldered LPDDR5x. ArchWiki: Intel Lunar Lake on Linux →
ubuntu-lts: Use Ubuntu 24.10 or the 24.04 HWE kernel; the 6.8 GA is too old for Lunar Lake. Same IPU6 webcam problem as on Fedora.