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 8 months ago
As per usual, Linux is fine with ARM.
Radium@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Most things are fine on arm these days. Don’t know what this person is on about
L_Acacia@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Windows is not fine with ARM, which can be a turnoff for some.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I bet it will be fine with arm fairly quickly now that these chips are on the horizon.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
The 20 reference laptops doing the benchmarking in this article were running on windows…
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 8 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.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 months ago
The benchmarks from this article are running on Windows 11 Arm…
jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A lot of x86 software is still just emulated for arm, not native.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Linux works well but sadly most people don’t use Linux
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they’d be okay with Gnome as well.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they sell snapdragon laptops with Linux preinstalled people would buy, sadly they’re more likely to include Windows (which has bad support).
scrape@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Android is Linux. Linux is the most popular OS in the world.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn’t be interested in a laptop running android.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 8 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 8 months ago
If anything Steam’s support for something else other than i386 is long overdue.