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Doesn’t look promising when Snapdragon X Elite struggles with Fortnite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733872

Why? It's not a native Windows on ARM app. Fornite uses kernel level anti-cheat. It's not a surprise it's broken. It'd be broken on x86 Linux under Proton or macOS with Whiskey too.

Linux on ARM at this point is in a more mature state than Windows with most distros having a huge percentage of packages available for ARM.

Right, "struggles" implies bad performance when in reality it simply doesn't work. Windows' translation layer handles user code, but not kernel drivers.

Isn't that proprietary x86 code?

The average Linux user runs code from the distribution's packages, built for the architecture Linux runs on.

"No", Epic spent a lot of money on the mobile gaming market that never came. Its why Epic being booted from the Google and Apple stores was such a huge deal: torpedoed their dreams of monetizing loot crates and other degenerate scams in emerging markets.

Can't tell what build they used in the benchmarks, though.

Fortnite on Windows is an x64 app. There is no ARM version for Windows. It's also not hugely relevant to running Linux on ARM.

What do you mean by "proprierary x86 code"

Fortnite is not opensource, so the code is running through an emulator. Apparently, the quality of the emulators on Windows is severly lacking in comparison to what Apple has done.

As usual.

it's not like gaming via apple's emulators is a speedy, smooth experience, to be fair.

Civ 5 works great on my MacBook ProMax M1- though it burns through battery pretty fast unplugged…

Hard disagree.

Galaxy s24 (a phone) can run fallout 4.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S24-Ultra-runs-...

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