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I rushed out and bought one of the new Snapdragon laptops – the Lenovo Yoga Slim with 32GB RAM. I figured that since Microsoft marketed this as an "AI" laptop,
by cowmix 2y ago
I rushed out and bought one of the new Snapdragon laptops – the Lenovo Yoga Slim with 32GB RAM. I figured that since Microsoft marketed this as an "AI" laptop, it would be a perfect platform for ML development. However, my experience has been the complete opposite. Python for Windows ARM64 is a complete mess. You have to build almost every module from scratch, and it’s a nightmare of broken and buggy dependencies.
After 10+ years of Windows ARM, I find these basic toolchain gaps inexcusable.
For what it’s worth, WSL on Windows ARM64 is pretty much great.
- Kye 2y agoWindows ARM is 10+ years old. Performant Windows ARM is not. There hasn't been an incentive to make all that stuff work until now because there wasn't much to do with it. I expect that will change soon.
- ElectricSpoon 2y agoWSL is alright. The real MVPs are the linux distros which have been building and shipping everything for arm64 for ages, and which happen to run on WSL.