A galaxy book 360 with arm processor is my dream machine. A Windows convertible with S Pen running Photoshop and all-day battery life? Yes, please!
Arm-powered? How am I supposed to use one when my other arm is being occupied?
Linux works well on supported ARM platforms, but the problem is that a lot of ARM platforms aren’t supported. I recently got a Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro (had to import it as it’s a China-only model) and put postmarketOS on it. The experience is surprisingly good. Paired with a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad, it is basically as functional as a normal light-duty Linux laptop except for the lack of x86 support, which mostly just means no gaming. I have been attempting to run Steam via box64 and FEX, but pmOS isn’t a supported distro for that so I have been trying in a Docker container and in Distrobox. I managed to get it started but it crashes due to steamwebhelper, and I think it’s a dependency or configuration issue. Otherwise, for browsing, coding, videos, terminal use, office, etc. it’s great and the battery life is amazing compared to my laptop. This is on a Snapdragon 870. Open source games run and they can hit 120fps on the 120Hz screen. I hope to see ARM support continue to improve, but I am worried about bootloader locks on these new ARM Windows machines.
I love the direction of low-power for higher performance I see in Snapdragon X, the potential for lunar lake, and the new zen5 mobile apus. Things are going to get very interesting, especially when we see DDR6 real world potential.
lol at “but don’t worry, we’ll cut down everything but the AI shit”.
