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999900000999last Wednesday at 3:16 AM2 repliesview on HN

I wanted to order one of these and then Qualcomm cancelled it.

Then I knew Windows ARM probably wasn't going to make it. Why any technical person would want a PC( not including Macs)that explicitly can't run Linux I'll never know.


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pjmlplast Wednesday at 8:57 AM

Technical person that knows UNIX since being introduced to it via Xenix in 1993, and has used plenty of UNIX flavours since then.

Some of us like the experience of Visual Studio, being able to do graphics development with modern graphics APIs that don't require a bazillion of code lines, with debuggers, not having to spend weekends trying to understand why yet again YouTube videos are not being hardware accelerated, scout for hardware that is supposed to work and then fails because the new firmaware update is no longer compatible,....

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kllrnohjlast Wednesday at 3:31 AM

> Why any technical person would want a PC that explicitly can't run Linux I'll never know.

Huh? https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x1e-september

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