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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by hootbootscoot on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:29PM (#22016303)
maybe you detest x86 and love aarch64. it's like cars. i dunno...why do you need to understand it for it to be a "thing" that exists in the world outside of your head?
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by hootbootscoot on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#22016316)
it's the 64bit leap from the acorn risc machine, for crying out loud, it's its own goal, wantable for it's own sake. pity that riscos will never be 64bit lol
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by qubex on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:25AM (#22019734)
Precisely: I want to do it because it’ll be interesting, the same reason I had a BeBox in the mid nineties and a Plan9 network in the 2000s.
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