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Qualcomm will finally support Linux on Snapdragon X2 chips (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 48 points 4 days ago (13 children)

As much as I welcome this I can't help but wonder, why do they care?

Is it because it was the year of the Linux desktop? ;D

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  • [–] 40 points 4 days ago*

    Same reason NVIDIA finally started prioritising open source drivers for linux all of a sudden... Its AI :/. The laptops are even called copilot+ PCs. They wanna make AI dev for those data centers that keep popping up as easy as possible. Thats literally the only reason.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 days ago

    If I had to guess, it would be to have an easier time getting intoe the server market.

    Being able to develop on the same platform as the one that a program is deployed to usually allows for much lower friction and faster development cycles.

    It can also be used to ramp up collaboration with the Linux project, which is useful for getting patches upstreames promptly.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Windows didn’t do well on these and they want to expand the market I guess

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    They may not have done well fiscally however I’ve been using a Lenovo ARM64 desktop and laptop for quite a while and my only pain points are the horrible, awful, type 4 printer support and having to hack around to get the shittastic VMware remote console (VMRC) to install.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    AI, same thing why nvidia kinda went a bit loosy with their drivers on linux, windows is too limiting and freeBSD is apple's main bitch.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (4 children)

    How do you figure FreeBSD is influenced by Apple? macOS and iOS don't use FreeBSD. They use Darwin, which is a BSD fork, but not related to FreeBSD at all AFAIK besides they have some of the userland tools.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    influenced? in coding mostly not, but darwin is based on older bsds including freebsd that has been impacful for macOS (and meta btw, freebsd not darwin) since it has the major development throughout compared to others eg. openstep (and they dont like copyleft licenses embedded on linux).

    Apple has also been found rebasing openbsd codes as thiers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    As someone who works for a company that develops FreeBSD kernel code, your doing an awful lot of conflating between BSDs. You're basically saying that ChromeOS and Fedora are the same because they use the Linux kernel.

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