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Snapdragon Elite X laptops are plenty decent.
Not for Linux they're not. IIRC Audio and camera don't work, and firmware is non-redistributable and so you need to mooch it off a Windows partition. On top of that the performance on Linux hasn't been great either.
Now we just need a decent ARM Linux laptop.
Qualcomm is already upstreaming support into Linux.
Take this with a grain of salt but since we are one the topic of games….
https://www.techpowerup.com/343081/qualcomm-says-90-of-games...
Now we just need a decent ARM Linux laptop.
Anyone can recommend something viable for simple tasks? I don't need 32GB of VRAM, just a reliable machine for everyday tasks that's decent, lightweight, has a good battery. (I know I'm describing an M2 Air, but I'd like to explore alternatives.)
Qualcomm is already upstreaming support into Linux.
Now we just need a decent ARM Linux laptop.
Anyone can recommend something viable for simple tasks? I don't need 32GB of VRAM, just a reliable machine for everyday tasks that's decent, lightweight, has a good battery. (I know I'm describing an M2 Air, but I'd like to explore alternatives.)
As you can tell from my past comments about Chromebooks as Linux workstations here, I'm a daily user and very happy with them.
I'n incredibly impressed by valve's commitment to playing the long game. It makes sense to have the frame by arm since the system is lighter and its clear this is just the trojan horse to get arm linux into every gamer's house. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with an arm steamdeck 1-2 version from now when the tech is ready.
Now we just need a decent ARM Linux laptop.
One problem I see is that (e.g.) Qualcomm Adreno GPUs don't even run most Windows games well when executed natively under Windows, due to games only being optimized for GeForce and Radeon. I assume this problem only gets worse when trying to run DirectX games through some sort of translation layer with FEX/DXVK.
The GPU is not run through a translation layer. The GPU is not an x86-64 CPU. Only the CPU code has to be emulated. The GPU runs natively. That does not help with poorly supported GPUs of course.
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Not just used by, Valve is sponsoring FEX. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903610#:~:text=Valve%...
I wouldn't call this random comment reliable testimony that they are sponsoring FEX.