Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86

• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Linux has been a fully working on arm for much longer than Windows so there’s that

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not what I meant. Microsoft has been working on Windows ARM, sure, but has anyone else been working on Windows ARM? As far as I know you can’t even get Firefox on ARM.

    I suppose that they have a compatibility layer, but it’s nowhere near the performance of Rosetta 2.

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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah well, Firefox definitely has a Windows arm native build available on their website but yeah most applications certainly won’t

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      • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, I stand corrected. I’m surprised I didn’t see it before.

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