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Expected them to at least mention running Linux on it

• lproven 4y ago
  I wrote the review. I did not mention that for two main reasons: 1. No mainstream current Linux distro runs on the machine yet. 2. The original plan was to review it as a Linux machine, but as someone who rarely uses Windows any more, I found the experience of running Windows on Arm to be interesting enough that there was enough to write a fairly long article on the experience of using it as a Windows machine for a Linux user. So, the plan is that there will be a future article on what it's like to run FOSS OSes on this machine. Incidentally, it runs WSL very well, and I have Arm Ubuntu under WSL on the machine. It's fine and very usable, and makes the problem of accidentally running x86 binaries on Windows simply go away. However, saying that, quite a few normal Linux tools are not available in Arm versions. For instance, almost any proprietary Linux app won't have Arm versions available.