AloofPenny t1_j8d3oab wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:35 PM

Reply to comment by extra_specticles in Open-Source, RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade by Avieshek

Really? also, what are you even talking about. They didn’t used to make Windows or iOS for arm, but they do now. But keep shitting on something that still doesn’t even actually exist yet.

extra_specticles t1_j8d41ne wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:39 PM

ARM Windows has existed for absolutely years. First version was in 2011 iIIRC. I'm not shitting on things I don't know about - I'm just pointing out how I've seen the market evolve.

KingdomOfBullshit t1_j8dh00o wrote on February 13, 2023 at 2:32 PM

Windows CE on ARM has an even longer history. I still miss my HP Jornada 720 with it's StrongARM SA-1110. Pretty sure I had that before or right around Y2K.

moepsenstreusel t1_j8dx6y4 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:25 PM

Yeah, but Windows CE wasn't in any meaningful sense Windows.

It was one of the generation of puny, souped-up embedded OSes (Symbian, BlackBerry) that slimmed-down, desktop-class OSes iOS and Android killed.

KingdomOfBullshit t1_j8dy4eu wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Honestly though, Windows CE was the best of these for me. It had a proper GUI, networking support, compatibility with PowerPoint/Word/Excel, awesome battery life, good support for printing and external displays and a decent SDK. It lacked win32 support but it checked all the other boxes for me. Couldn't say that about any palm pilot I had.

Edit: forgot to mention that, of course I agree it was a different beast than windows

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AloofPenny t1_j8d4jc2 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:44 PM

https://amp.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3178109/tech-war-china-bets-open-source-risc-v-chip-design-minimise-potential there you go. There’s the market. It exists already. Because the US forced it

extra_specticles t1_j8d4uqw wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:47 PM

Yes and like I said it may be the case for China. But outside of the restrictions on China - the most massive laptop markets do not use Linux. And it's won't happen in those markets until major desktop OS support is created from Windows and perhaps MacOs (which I doubt)