Comment by LeFantome

6 days ago

Open Source has a massive advantage here.

Almost everything on regular Fedora works on Ashai Fedora out of the box on Apple Silicon.

You can get a full Ubuntu distribution for RISC-V with tens of thousands of packages working today.

Many Linux users would have little trouble changing architectures. For Linux, the issue is booting and drivers.

What you say is true for proprietary software of course. But there is FEX to run x86 software on ARM and Felix86 to run it on RISC-V. These work like Rosetta. Many Windows games run this way for example.

The majority of Android apps ship as Dalvik bytecode and should not care about the arch. Anything using native code is going to require porting though. That includes many games I imagine.

we are both right in different scopes but the context of the thread is the cancellation of an ARM notebook