Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don’t much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.
Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don’t much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Considering a severe lack of software support on ARM they better have a massive cost incentive
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As per usual, Linux is fine with ARM.
Radium@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most things are fine on arm these days. Don’t know what this person is on about
L_Acacia@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Windows is not fine with ARM, which can be a turnoff for some.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MacOS? Yes. Linux? Sure. Android? Obviously. Windows? Not a chance!
And seeing this is designed for laptops, your options will be either Linux or Windows. The comment is on point.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A lot of x86 software is still just emulated for arm, not native.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Linux works well but sadly most people don’t use Linux
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they’d be okay with Gnome as well.
scrape@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Android is Linux. Linux is the most popular OS in the world.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d imagine most open source software will just be perfectly fine on ARM on Linux… but I do wonder a little bit about the occasional x86 binary blob we run. They’re generally pretty rare in Linux land… but things like Steam are probably not going to have a great time. I’ve used binfmt_misc to run ARM binaries on x86 transparently before using qemu, and it works perfectly fine… but it’s dog slow.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If anything Steam’s support for something else other than i386 is long overdue.