Can somebody explain to me why ARM laptops are not mainstream

>>59759851
Get something running RemixOS, or that new ARM laptop that's going to have Windows 10 from Samsung

>>59759851
There are so Chromebooks being released/already released with ARM CPUs. I have a arm chromebook that's decently okay to use.

>>59759851
>what is a chromebook

an anonymous senior engineer at apple said that there are many functional arm macbook prototypes being tested. why we havent seen them yet who know.

answer: when apple does it

>>59759851
found the ARM shill

1.) performance is absolute fucking dogshit. I'm talking sub-celery performance
2.) You cannot run a full desktop OS or full desktop software without incurring a huge performance penalty (ie x86 code emulation)
3.) Bluestacks exists
4.) specs on these "laptops" is laughable

>>59760032
> You cannot run a full desktop OS or full desktop software

This. We never had desktop OSs before the i-series. In fact, I still remember loading my core duo at the blistering speed of 2 cards a minute.

Because if x86-64 goes away, so does Arch.
End of the world.

>>59759851

Because x86

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>>59760032
As an ex-chromebook user I completely agree with all points. I regret ever buying mine.

fucking ARM...

manjaro got me

Gayming market

>tfw no high performance ARM or similar type laptop with properly supported Unix operating system made specially for it

>>59761909
>what is arch for ARM?

>>59761909
https://archlinuxarm.org/

>>59759851
what's wrong with atom x86?

>>59759851
Because there are no good non-botnet OSes for it.

>but muh gentoo
It's an afterthought. Kinda like Linux software in general.