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  • Re: Dimdows-on-ARM Hitting Headwinds?

    From rbowman@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Jul 23 02:19:08 2025
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    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:23:05 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Wonder what “slower-than-expected OS roadmap” means? Does it mean Microsoft is having trouble making Windows-on-ARM fit for production
    use?

    I would guess the x64 emulator isn't going well and they realize without
    that they have another RT on their hands.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Joel on Thu Jul 24 05:23:45 2025
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    On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:53:21 -0400, Joel wrote:

    Your obsession with hating Microsoft leads you to say inaccurate things.
    Windows is portable. It does work on ARM. Is it as comprehensive as IntelAMD Windows' support, probably not, but some people are willing to sacrifice a little compatibility for a better hardware platform. All
    that being said, I'd like to run Linux on ARM.

    Is there a better hardware platform yet?

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/surface-pro-11-and-laptop-7- review-an-apple-silicon-moment-for-windows/

    I detected several damning with faint praise moments.



    I currently have two ARM boards running Linux. Both are Debian 12
    (Bookworm). The RPi 3+ is dedicated to a robotic dog but the RPi 5 is a
    general purpose box. It's not a powerhouse but it's usable.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Joel on Thu Jul 24 17:48:34 2025
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    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:19:53 -0400, Joel wrote:

    It occurs to me that there are apps precompiled for IntelAMD on Linux
    that would have to be manually compiled for ARM, so maybe for now I'm
    better off with the Intel box I have. But the future is wide-open.

    https://flexibits.com/blog/2024/10/fantastical-for-windows-is-finally-
    here/

    https://www.arm.com/company/success-library/fantastical

    I'm not going to sign up for more spam to get the case study but it's interesting an Apple app that only recently was ported to x64 Windows also jumped onto Windows on Arm. I wonder if developing it in the Apple world
    gave them a leg up on Arm and how useful AI was in the port?

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  • From Not Necessary@21:1/5 to Joel on Sat Jul 26 11:50:20 2025
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    On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:53:21 -0400, Joel wrote:

    Your obsession with hating Microsoft leads you to say inaccurate things.
    Windows is portable. It does work on ARM. Is it as comprehensive as IntelAMD Windows' support, probably not, but some people are willing to sacrifice a little compatibility for a better hardware platform. All
    that being said, I'd like to run Linux on ARM.

    Microsoft themselves failed to capitalize on providing support to ARM. The portability of Windows is inconsequential if the apps are unsupported. As
    long as x86 apps does not have near-universal compatibility with the
    underlying software with a minimal translation layer (such as Apple's
    Rosetta); transitioning Windows to ARM architecture would be difficult.

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