• Nilz@sopuli.xyz
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      If that’s the case they should not say stuff like “oh we would totally support Linux if the Steam Deck would have sold 10 million copies, the userbase is just too small now” but then proceed to support ARM which has a much smaller userbase still while there’s not even a guarantee it will outgrow Linux in the near future. Just quit the BS and say you’ll never want to support Linux.

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      I really haven’t been paying attention on the consumer side, are there a ton of systems in the works or out for ARM on windows? Everything I see due to my line of work is business class SKU’s they are not cheap and not game friendly. 😬

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        Functionally, it works great and sluses less power. Issue is it can’t be backwards compatible with any software from a traditional processor. So the last 3 decades worth of programs you may have won’t run on an arm chip.

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          21 hours ago

          Sorry, I just meant on the home/consumer market instead of business. I’ve been rocking a Lenovo T14s Gen 6 ARM since it debuted. 😄

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        There are plenty of Windows on ARM laptiops available from major manufacturers, including Microsoft, Samsung, Acer, Asus, Dell, etc. Microsoft notably sells their ARM laptops for less than the Intel version; not sure about the other brands.

        The iGPUs obviously don’t compare to dedicated GPUs, even those that are a few generations old, but it has enough power for gaming in lighter games and even heavier games if you’re willing to turn the graphics to low and lower the resolution.

        Last I saw, there were a lot of game incompatibility issues, but I haven’t been paying attention since launch. But this thread is literally about Epic improving their support on ARM, albeit with a “they hate Linux!” spin on it.

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          23 hours ago

          Are we even able to successfully add an eGPU on those ARM laptops using a Linux distro?

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            23 hours ago

            I know you can with Raspberry Pi’s and Ampere CPUs.

            Not sure about X Elite, that hardware still isn’t fully upstreamed. Ubuntu has decent support for them though.