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The Desktop Linux will take over from here guys. Next year it will be ready, together with GNU Hurd for everyone and their Grandma.
The AArch64 desktop experiment started in 2020 with the Macbook M1 and it ended in 2026 with great success with Apple phasing out support for Intel. It is called Apple Silicon.
Which is somewhat useless because it doesn't properly support ACPI/UEFI so that you can boot other operating systems
The AArch64 desktop experiment started in 2020 with the Macbook M1 and it ended in 2026 with great success with Apple phasing out support for Intel. It is called Apple Silicon.
Which is somewhat useless because it doesn't properly support ACPI/UEFI so that you can boot other operating systems
I see the problem, but I don't see a clear analysis on the actual source of the problem. I assumed the issue was mainly single core performance, but he is also suggesting context switches could be the cause? So could you fix that with a new scheduler? Or you just need another SoC with better single core performance? I could imagine that the latter already exists, just not in soc with >16 cores. My naive view is that…
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Which is somewhat useless because it doesn't properly support ACPI/UEFI so that you can boot other operating systems
Linux on apple silicon is a thing though: https://asahilinux.org/
All he had to do was build some packages from source, right? It's really worth learning how to do this, since it removes a lot of constraints.
And the kernel patch should land in the kernel pretty soon, I hope? He won't have to run a patched kernel forever. Should be possible to get that in a release in a year or so?
Can the ThinkPad T14 ARM Snapdragon variant function without pain as a daily Linux/BSD driver?
Without pain? I mean, there is pain when using Linux. It just works better than, say, Windows.
I can't even say there was any pain whatsoever. The experience is now more akin to MacOS circa 10.6.x years.
The AArch64 desktop experiment started in 2020 with the Macbook M1 and it ended in 2026 with great success with Apple phasing out support for Intel. It is called Apple Silicon.