Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by arjie on Saturday June 06, 2026 @02:47PM (#48427755)

Garbage operating system support. If you can’t do Linux support it’s a bit pointless because there’s two platforms for this that matter: Linux and Darwin.

Qualcomm is like AMD was for GPUs for like decades. Lots of announcements and people on the Internet are huge fans based on web pages they’ve read but if you try to make it work it’s a nightmare.

Snapdragon X Elite doesn’t work on Linux so it’s a pointless platform. Enthusiasts have made M1 work better. Literally have old Macs running rather than use Qualcomm.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by KeplerBoy on Saturday June 06, 2026 @07:30PM (#48430161)

How does Darwin matter more than Windows?

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by davemp on Saturday June 06, 2026 @10:53PM (#48431321)

I assume because most windows installs are corporate IT garbage that if anyone cared about performance they could just turn off one of the three endpoint protection services or tune the backup service down and get better results than processor upgrades.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by raudette on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:27AM (#48434617)

this

It drives me nuts, I look at cumulative CPU time, and this is all my work laptop does.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by pjmlp on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:20AM (#48443033)

I can 100% assure you that there is corporate IT garbage available for macOS and Linux as well.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by TiredOfLife on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:11AM (#48432606)

It has Linux support from wsl2

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by satvikpendem on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:13AM (#48432613)

Alternatively, just use Windows.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by someguyornotidk on Sunday June 07, 2026 @04:55AM (#48433086)

Yep, very much this. I don't bother looking to them for anything in this space because the hostility they show towards general Linux support appears to be rooted in principle and appears to be very much deliberate. It almost feels like Linux support would run counter to how they want their processors to be used.

Whether this is true or not, it's pretty safe to assume anything based on their stuff is not for me.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by zozbot234 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:32AM (#48433254)

It's the usual issue with Qualcomm SoCs being designed as bespoke embedded platforms as opposed to standard general-purpose compute. So Linux support for these chips ends up being heavily vendor specific, i.e. it's not just Qualcomm it's also the platform OEMs.

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Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs by danslo on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:47AM (#48433320)

Support is slowly landing... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Yoga-Slim-7x-Gen11-Linu...

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