They’re literally memeing on the store page about it being based on Arch (by the way)
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vga@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
If Valve makes ARM Linux work properly as a gaming/desktop OS, I will uhh hmm.
I will buy this thing.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 day ago
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
This could be huge for ARM adoption on PC. Exciting stuff!
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was my thought too, as far as I understand ARM is superior to x86 in many aspects, but because of compatibility it never took over the desktop market, this could be the beginning of an amazing transformation.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Exactly. The performance to price ratio is much better for ARM. The only barrier to adoption is compatibility, but they seem to have a decent emulation layer for that.