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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from Tuxedo:12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

however it's going to be a pain, there's a LOT of X86_64 software out there that is hard to get running on ARM with decent performance

That was Mac when the M1 dropped, buy their problem is most of the stuff isn't open source and one has to wait for the publisher to recompile on an ARM device. I expect a bunch of software to just be recompiled remotely or locally if you have such a distro (Gentoo, Arch, NixOS,...) and not even notice a difference.

A lot of stuff already has ARM builds because of the raspberry pi. Many docker images have ARM versions too.

This isn't going to be the clusterfuck it was on Malus chips, except for maybe gaming because it's in the same place. Asahi Linux is dealing with that right now too (donating can help).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

My other answer here: https://lemmy.world/comment/10549598