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I feel like linux users benefit the most from arm since we can build our software natively for arm with access to the source code.
no love for RISC-V?
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Same goes for RV, OpenRISC, MIPS and other architectures.
It doesn’t usually work that well in practice. I have been running an M1 MBA for the last couple years (asahi Arch and now Asahi Fedora spin). More complex pieces of software typically have build system and dependencies that are not compatible or just make hunting everything down a hassle.
That said there is a ton of software that is available for arm64 on Linux so it’s really not that bad of an experience. And there are usually alternatives available for software that cannot be found.
Couldn’t we do that with x86?
We can. The point is that Windows users can’t compile for arm. They depend on the Dev to to it. That will take some time and some won’t do it at all.
Aha. I see so many Docker projects with examples of how to build for ARM, I just assumed it was always that easy.
Is that a developer licence thing? I know GitHub recently announced Windows Arm runners that would be available to non-teams/enterprise tiers later this year.
recently got asahi running on an m1 macbook pro. loving the battery life that I get out of it
