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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by Gibbon1 on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:21PM (#23606861)
> Most distros are targeted at laptops, desktops or servers, and few of those have ARM processors.

I wouldn't bet my farm on that without a bunch of research and cross checking because embedded linux is really common. Consider manufacturers are producing very large numbers of embedded ARM micro's with external memory interfaces. I think the majority of those are running linux.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by Delk on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:55PM (#23607305)
That's a fair point. I was referring to "most" distros in terms of the plain number of distros with reasonable mainstream visibility (and therefore possibly the majority focus from mainstream userspace developers), as a kind of a generous argument. The number of embedded Linux deployments is undoubtedly huge.
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