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I'm more concerned about drivers than apps, because that's where you'll absolutely need native ARM builds rather than being able to fall back on emulation.

• tonymet 3y ago
  extremely good point. Also drivers can be even more disruptive. You have a scanner you use 1 / mo but for a critical business. Everything's great on your new Arm / Windows laptop and then you find out the 5 y/o scanner driver doesn't work. Your meeting is in the morning.
  • rsynnott 3y ago
    Not sure about modern Windows, but on modern MacOS and Linux, at least, drivers for things like scanners and printers are generally user-mode, so can run under Rosetta-type stuff.
    • tonymet 3y ago
      I'm not an expert, but it seems that Windows does have a framework call User-Mode Driver Framework, but that wouldn't help with the bulk of conventional drivers that were written in kernel-mode. Going forward it could help though but that would take years https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wdf/user-mode-driver-framework-frequently-asked-questions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/w...