I'm sure you're right about being the minority here, but in terms of real world use of computing as a tool, not a learning experiment, who is in the minority?Sure, but anything else is not commercially viable. I'm not averse to dropping $100 to license a commercially viable productThe OS would cost more than the hardware it's running on.
I strongly suspect you're in a minority there.that actually has third party industry support for the tools I need, which presently are only available under X86 Windows.
Windows on ARM alone won't solve that problem. You need either the developer of those tools to rebuild them for ARM or a decent x86 emulation/translation layer.What good is a free Linux desktop if none of your tools run on it, because nobody is willing to deal with the mess of different distributions one would need to target?
Really? Noone? What about DIsplaylink and NVIDIA? Both provide closed source binary drivers though last I checked only for certain distros not for all of them.
Windows on ARM would provide a common, consistent, predictable and supported base allowing third parties to invest in porting products with some expectation of recouping their costs. It doesn't even need to be Windows but it needs to be ubiquitous. I'd love to be able to run popular commercial products I use daily on a Linux desktop but the reality is that isn't an option. Try telling a commercial artist, for example, to use GIMP when he's spent the last 20 years mastering Photoshop.
Statistics: Posted by lurk101 — Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:18 pm