Comment by 999900000999
4 days ago
I wanted to order one of these and then Qualcomm cancelled it.
Then I knew Windows ARM probably wasn't going to make it. Why any technical person would want a PC( not including Macs)that explicitly can't run Linux I'll never know.
Technical person that knows UNIX since being introduced to it via Xenix in 1993, and has used plenty of UNIX flavours since then.
Some of us like the experience of Visual Studio, being able to do graphics development with modern graphics APIs that don't require a bazillion of code lines, with debuggers, not having to spend weekends trying to understand why yet again YouTube videos are not being hardware accelerated, scout for hardware that is supposed to work and then fails because the new firmaware update is no longer compatible,....
Your comment appears to address the question "why use Windows" (even though the answer doesn't really make sense to me), but that's not the question asked in GP. The question was "Why buy a Windows on ARM device"
Ah, ok, that I really don't see the point.
PCs aren't vertically integrated from a single vendor, and thus it isn't as if Microsoft alone can drag a whole ecosystem into ARM, even if the emulation would work out great.
Windows NT was also multi-architecture, and eventually all variants died, because x86 was good enough, and when Itanium came to be, AMD got a workaround to keep x86 going forward.
Even gaming doesn't work that great on Windows ARM.
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Ok.
But with an x86 device you can run Windows and Linux. With an Windows Arm device it's probably only going to work with Windows.
It's not clear what real advantages Arm gives you here.
That much I agree on, indeed.
> Why any technical person would want a PC that explicitly can't run Linux I'll never know.
Huh? https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x1e-september
More recent revisit: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy...
TL;DR: It runs, but not well, and performance has regressed since the last published benchmark.
Tuxedo is a german company relabling Clevo Laptops so far, which work out-of-the-box pretty good (I might say perfect in some cases) on Linux. They have done ZILCH, NADA, absolute nothing for Linux, besides promoting it as a brand. So now they took a snapdragon laptop, installed linux and are disappointed by the performance....Great test, tremendous work! Asahi Linux showed if you put in the work you can have awesome performance.
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