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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g947o 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Your comment appears to address the question "why use Windows" (even though the answer doesn't really make sense to me), but that's not the question asked in GP. The question was "Why buy a Windows on ARM device"

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pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ah, ok, that I really don't see the point.

PCs aren't vertically integrated from a single vendor, and thus it isn't as if Microsoft alone can drag a whole ecosystem into ARM, even if the emulation would work out great.

Windows NT was also multi-architecture, and eventually all variants died, because x86 was good enough, and when Itanium came to be, AMD got a workaround to keep x86 going forward.

Even gaming doesn't work that great on Windows ARM.

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999900000999 2 days ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	pjmlp a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	jajuuka a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>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.

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999900000999 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok.

But with an x86 device you can run Windows and Linux. With an Windows Arm device it's probably only going to work with Windows.

It's not clear what real advantages Arm gives you here.

	▲	pjmlp 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That much I agree on, indeed.