Comment by 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.
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
>Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?
https://www.theverge.com/news/758828/microsoft-windows-on-ar...
>Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/your-win...
These devkits are old and have already been released to consumer laptops over a year ago. So if you want to you can pick up pretty much any CoPilot+ PC. I'm not sure what your problem here is though.
While I agree Microsoft's strategy with Windows ARM could be better, it isn't as if GNU/Linux on ARM is flourishing for consumers, outside Android.