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Comment by g947o

3 days ago

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"

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pjmlp  3 days ago

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.

  • 999900000999  3 days ago

    Microsoft isn't even putting in a fair effort.

    They have the Surface line and own tons of game studios.

    Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?

    Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.

    In retrospect it was hopelessly naive, but I even emailed Qualcomm asking if I could have a dev kit in exchange for porting one of my hobbyist games. They basically said thank you for asking but we don't have a program for this.

    Now hypothetically let's say there was a Qualcomm Snapdragon Linux laptop. I could just port the code myself for most applications I actually need