so much for the windows on arm 'revolution'.
It should be pretty clear by now that most Windows developers do not care about ARM. It's not that I think they are dismissive of the platform, but they are waiting for Microsoft, Dell and Lenovo to deliver a finished product. They aren't going to spend time on yet another failed Microsoft hardware experiment.
Windows developers aren't going to switch to ARM in large numbers until Microsoft and partners can deliver a platform with a decade or two of longevity. They are completely accustom to Microsoft preserving backwards compatibility and they'll expect the same to be turn for a architecture switch.
They effectively said new Macs will be arm. If you want to develop for OSX it better be ARM compatibility .
Microsoft has a chicken and egg problem. Why would I port even my games to Windows ARM when the vast majority of users will be on x64 anyway.
Windows ARM isn't much more efficient when running a x64 binary anyway. You have strange comparability issues.
This is less of an issue with Linux since we can ultimately recompile our own software.
But as mentioned above, Qualcomm doesn't feel like supporting Linux, at least not well enough for it to be usable.
Honestly Microsoft( or another OEM) needs to ship a dual boot ARM laptop. The 12th of never when they happens these laptops will sell well. As is they're effectively on clearance. A 3 month year old laptop already 30% to 40% off.
2019-2020 - Microsoft partners with Qualcomm to launch Windows ARM... again
2024-???? - Microsoft partners with Qualcomm... again, to launch Windows ARM... again
Fourth times the charm?
And the one before that.
Again.
Like every single challenger that has come before.
Perhaps it is prudent to not challenge Win32.
(This comment was submitted on an ARM-based Linux Desktop)
If you want a review: it's fine if your goal is to just experiment with an ARM machine or a Linux tablet, but GUI apps are pretty slow. If you switch to a console VT it's fine. I haven't tried any benchmarks but I don't imagine they'll get a very good score at all.
And unlike with Apple, on Windows the x86 won't go away. So there's two architectures that need to be supported. And I'm not so sure everybody is interested to put the effort for Arm.
I should know, I owned both a Windows ARM PC and a Tesla with “FSD”.
Now Windows 11 feels as exciting as sponge cake and nobody cares too much about PCs anymore