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Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good luck making that work with Windows. If it does its not going to be profitable as Microsoft will eat your arm.

I would love to see one of these running Linux but I don't see that happening realistically

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Already does?

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-tablets/laptop-device-finder/microsoft-surface-pro-9-sq3-5g

Windows on ARM is a thing, and it does x64 and x86 translation.

The chips likely also have hardware to accelerate translation as well, to compete with M1 and M2 chips.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where's the installation iso?

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's an archive of all Windows updates and builds. This query is for arm64.

https://www.uup.ee/known.php?q=arm64

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not a safe place to get isos

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From a security perspective, as long as you check the hash against Microsoft's website then it should be okay. Otherwise I'm not sure where to get Windows on ARM ISO's from.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's my point. Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to outside of the surface

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mean yeah you're not wrong. If only the Surface wasn't so absurdly overpriced for what you get.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Exactly. Thanks to raspberry pis and other ARM SBCs there's been a lot of ARM native support on Linux. Windows really hurt themselves with their initial ARM support.