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

• 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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      • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I doubt it. Many windows applications still are 32 bit only today. Visual studio only got 64 bit support in 2022. Windows has a long history of backwards compatibility and I would expect to be depending on software compatibility layers for a decade or more, even for some Microsoft products.

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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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      • L_Acacia@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Being able to run benchmarks doesn’t make it is a great experience to use unfortunately. 3/4 of applications don’t run or have bugs that the devs don’t want to fix.

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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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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh don’t get me wrong, it definitely runs!

        But have you tried using it as a daily drivers? Most things will break. I discovered this the hard way by installing it in a Raspberry Pi

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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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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yet Chromebooks have been a major element for the past 5 years, with more units sold than Apple. I know it’s not technically GNU/Linux. But there’s still a Linux core underneath required to run them.

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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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