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More ARM Linux Laptops Are on the Way
- richdougherty 2y agoSource with more information: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-on-ARM-is-coming.tuxedo https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-on-ARM-is-coming.t...
- Rinzler89 2y agoWe need more CPU manufacturers not just a Qualcomm monopoly.
- snvzz 2y agoBest to look at RISC-V, then. Proliferation of third party ARM designs is unlikely to ever happen now.
- kombine 2y agoFramework announced the RISC-V laptop just recently, which is really fucking on a raspberry PI-like single board computer on the their chassis. What I'm personally bothered about is the use of proprietary apps that are already provided for Linux on x86, and frankly no one will bother to build them for RISC-V.
- darthrupert 2y agoI'm worried that most, if not all, Riscv inplementations are coming from China.
- Rinzler89 2y agoI don't get the use of fucking in your context. Is that a autocorrect issue?
- prmoustache 2y ago> What I'm personally bothered about is the use of proprietary apps that are already provided for Linux on x86 Frankly apart from gamers it is not very common to use proprietary apps on Linux. I could still count my installed proprietary apps with my fingers if I was a limb amputee. Gamers choose their hardware based on the games they want to play, not the opposite anyway so they are just not the target market.
- classichasclass 2y ago> frankly no one will bother to build them for RISC-V. Welcome to our pain in OpenPOWER world, though at least we have the weight of IBM to encourage some ports, and for the big Power chips emulation is still reasonably practical.
- goosedragons 2y agoMediaTek is rumored to be planning ARM chips for PC in 2025. We'll see if they bother with Linux support.
- delfinom 2y agoMediaTek has been in permanent third place to Qualcomm, and even Samsung's Exynos for a long time. It'll be a miracle for them to produce something even competitive in the PC space.
- luyu_wu 2y agoThis is heavily outdated. Dimensity 9300 is ahead of both SNDG3 and A17 in MC benchmarks. The GPU is highly competitive too. It's somewhat laughable to compare it to Exynos :)
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoDid NVidia give up when the merger/acquisition of ARM was denied? And Apple, look I get that the MBAs view PC/Notebooks as a non-growth industry, but it is still huge, and Apple may be scraping the barrel on iPhones. Why sit on hardware AND OS that is generally better than everyone elses in the consumer space?
- halJordan 2y agoNvidia still makes cpu cores, but they are only sold on gpu boards
- kristianpaul 2y agoMNT reform recently added support for rockchip
- hkmaxpro 2y agoDoesn’t look promising when Snapdragon X Elite struggles with Fortnite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733872
- snvzz 2y agoIsn't that proprietary x86 code? The average Linux user runs code from the distribution's packages, built for the architecture Linux runs on.
- DiabloD3 2y ago"No", Epic spent a lot of money on the mobile gaming market that never came. Its why Epic being booted from the Google and Apple stores was such a huge deal: torpedoed their dreams of monetizing loot crates and other degenerate scams in emerging markets. Can't tell what build they used in the benchmarks, though.
- goosedragons 2y agoFortnite on Windows is an x64 app. There is no ARM version for Windows. It's also not hugely relevant to running Linux on ARM.
- high_na_euv 2y agoWhat do you mean by "proprierary x86 code"
- darthrupert 2y agoFortnite is not opensource, so the code is running through an emulator. Apparently, the quality of the emulators on Windows is severly lacking in comparison to what Apple has done. As usual.
- rcxdude 2y agoit's not like gaming via apple's emulators is a speedy, smooth experience, to be fair.
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]