Switchroot announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04 assemblies for the Nintendo Switch, based on SOC Tegra X1 (Switch 2017, Switch 2019, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED). Along with Ubuntu, the Switchroot project offers downloads for Nintendo Switch assemblies of Fedora 39, Lakka 5.0, and Lineageos 18.1. Installation is done from the SD card using the bootloader hekate. Additional components used for downloading are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Supported graphic interfaces include KDE Plasma and Unity (Gnome assemblies are delayed due to issues with productivity and touchscreens can be enabled using scripts like l4t-megascript, the pi-apps repository (over 200 programs), or Flatpak packages.
Supported features include controllers such as Nintendo Switch Pro, GameCube, DualShock 4, Xbox One, and Joy-Con, CPU, GPU, and memory overclocking, USB-C, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DisplayPort/HDMI, audio, touchscreen, eMMC/SD, Tegra GPU (drivers for Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGLES, EGL, CUDA), hardware-accelerated video decoding (in SMPV Player, FFMPEG, MPV, and Chromium-Browser), deep sleep mode, and ambient light sensor. NFC and infrared port (IR) are not supported.