Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/30/arm64-on-the-desktop-its-spendy-and-its-sluggish/5264407

Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don’t want it

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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Based on everything described, it sounds more like a lack of support and optimization rather than a fundamental flaw in arm

stsquad@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 35d

Yes. I may be biased but the Arm architecture itself is fine and pretty performant on modern SoCs. Once the system vendors actually manage to ship something without a broken PCIe bus is happily daily drive it.

Hell if I could reliably get EL2 I'd even spring for one of the Snapdragon laptops.

garbage_world@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
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zeppo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d

I've used ARM Windows 11 on a MacBook in virtualization and it seems fine to me. Even runs x86 games with decent performance.

roger.wood@feddit.online · 2 pts · 35d (1 reply)

"Macromedia Flash support"?!? is this article from the past?

AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 35d

It does mention that those posts were from 2015. Though that still would have been about a decade after Adobe took over.

ETA: Clicking on the post they are referencing, the original author called it Adobe Flash, so not sure why it was changed for this article.

terabyterex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
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