Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by john01dav on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:59AM (#45023591)

Power efficiency is very important to servers too, for cost instead of for battery life. But, energy is energy. Thus, I suspect that the power draw is in userland systems that are specific to desktop, like desktop environments. Thus, using a simpler desktop environment may be worthwhile.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by mcny on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:31AM (#45024240)

I used Ubuntu around 2015 - 2018 and got hit with a nasty defect around gnome online accounts integrations (please correct me if the words are wrong here). For some reason, it got stuck in a loop or a bad state on my machine. I have since then decided that I will never add any of my online accounts, Facebook, Google, or anything to Gnome.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by qcnguy on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:29AM (#45024646)

It's important but not relative to performance. Perf/watt thinking has a much longer history in mobile and laptop spaces. Even in servers most workloads haven't migrated to ARM.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by umbra07 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:49PM (#45034173)

I assumed the same thing, until I tested my hypothesis. KDE Plasma 6 uses less power on idle than just `Hyprland` (tiling WM) without anything like a notification daemon, idler, status bar, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by pdimitar on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:26AM (#45036502)

Were you able to find out why? This is very interesting and I'd never guess it.

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