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Comment by 999900000999

4 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

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.