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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by thayne on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:03PM (#25250623)
There is plenty of linux software that runs on arm64 though. Even if windows remains the dominant deaktop OS, there is certainly a niche for developers and other who would want to run linux on a high-performance arm64 laptop. And then there is chrome OS.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by frankchn on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:24AM (#25250969)
I don't think the "developers who want a high performance ARM laptop" niche is large enough for any serious hardware manufacturer to address.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by CountSessine on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:59PM (#25256728)
You can't design a desktop-class CPU for a market niche. Even board-level design doesn't scale that way - every good linux laptop on the market is actually a Windows laptop that's had linux installed on it and benefits from the economies of scale in the Windows market (as much as it saddens me to say this, typing this on a thinkpad running fedora 33).
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