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Legacy software and games mean that ARM PCs will never be anything more than a niche curiosity.
The ISA wars are long over, and x86 won time and time again.
I disagree. Legacy software and games can run through translation layers. We already do that with windows software on Linux.
Maintained software doesn't really have an excuse not to support ARM, unless the developers are woefully incompetent/lazy/personally biased against supporting it.
Still no Discord ARM app...
The app for MacOS? On apple silicon doesn’t use Rosetta any longer I believe
Definitely not on Windows for ARM. Idk about Mac