@sapphire@prettygood@dushman@mischievoustomato@hor32 Interesting that Macbooks are eating the office market alive rn, though I am unsure if it'll wind up being dominant long-term. Apple is stingy with letting Mac OS running on anything but their hardware and there will be a large market for lower-cost ARM laptops. If corporate Linux could cut a deal with ARM laptop manufacturers and get industry standard stuff running a killing could surely be made.
@sapphire@prettygood@dushman@mischievoustomato@hor32 Shit, even workstations are starting to adopt ARM chips (see: Ampere Altra). IMO once corpos see the writing on the wall and starts compiling the industry standard stuff for ARM x86 is cooked. I guarantee you Valve is currently doing work to get Steam and its library running on ARM officially too.
Does leave an interesting opportunity for corporate Linux to beat Microsoft to the punch. As of now Windows RT still sucks balls and I can't think of any Windows-only industry standard shitware that's recompiled for ARM.
@mischievoustomato@sapphire@prettygood@dushman@hor32 Not that long when you consider its ubiquity in embedded computing save for laptops, which is currently changing given the most highly valued company in history is going all-in on ARM laptops successfully. Not to mention the increasingly high usage in servers due to low power usage.
@mischievoustomato@sapphire@mint@lizzy >who even uses that anymore? People who actually need legacy applications for work. Also people who need to do screen recording or screen sharing.
@sapphire@lizzy@mischievoustomato Egh they do support a lot of FOSS projects but they really need to clean house badly. GNOME in particular needs to get strongarmed into making things work, preferably through a purge. It all depends on IBM however and they are very well entrenched in poz.
@mischievoustomato@lizzy It's up in the air tbh. IMO if they make it a tiling wm that just werks™ with DE niceties it'll be worth using but I don't know if they even have that as a vision.
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