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999900000999last Wednesday at 2:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

Microsoft isn't even putting in a fair effort.

They have the Surface line and own tons of game studios.

Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?

Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.

In retrospect it was hopelessly naive, but I even emailed Qualcomm asking if I could have a dev kit in exchange for porting one of my hobbyist games. They basically said thank you for asking but we don't have a program for this.

Now hypothetically let's say there was a Qualcomm Snapdragon Linux laptop. I could just port the code myself for most applications I actually need


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jajuukalast Wednesday at 7:38 PM

>Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?

https://www.theverge.com/news/758828/microsoft-windows-on-ar...

>Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/your-win...

These devkits are old and have already been released to consumer laptops over a year ago. So if you want to you can pick up pretty much any CoPilot+ PC. I'm not sure what your problem here is though.

pjmlplast Wednesday at 7:41 PM

While I agree Microsoft's strategy with Windows ARM could be better, it isn't as if GNU/Linux on ARM is flourishing for consumers, outside Android.