Comment on Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor

• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As per usual, Linux is fine with ARM.

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  • Radium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most things are fine on arm these days. Don’t know what this person is on about

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    • L_Acacia@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Windows is not fine with ARM, which can be a turnoff for some.

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      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I bet it will be fine with arm fairly quickly now that these chips are on the horizon.

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The 20 reference laptops doing the benchmarking in this article were running on windows…

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most things are fine on arm these days

      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.

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      • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The benchmarks from this article are running on Windows 11 Arm…

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Caveat for all platforms running wine applications. So Linux is fine, except when running windows applications.

        Well, mostly, there do exist binary only Linux applications too. Business applications and also some games with native Linux support.

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of x86 software is still just emulated for arm, not native.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Linux works well but sadly most people don’t use Linux

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they’d be okay with Gnome as well.

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If they sell snapdragon laptops with Linux preinstalled people would buy, sadly they’re more likely to include Windows (which has bad support).

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    • scrape@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Android is Linux. Linux is the most popular OS in the world.

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn’t be interested in a laptop running android.

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  • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If anything Steam’s support for something else other than i386 is long overdue.

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