M500

Both of your downsides are just things you think. Let’s wait a few years and see what the software can do.

There is a video somewhere of someone using it to play Skyrim on an old android. I don’t think it’s a bad as you believe it to be.

Did he try to intervene with any of them?

Check out box86. There are videos of people running various games with it.

I posted a link in this thread of someone playing world of Warcraft on a pi 4.

I’m not saying that it’s ready to go today, but in a few years it will be great. Especially if valve develops for it the way they did it it proton.

I agree that translation layers will slow things down, but I don’t think it will be too terribly slow especially as more powerful chips come out.

I’m referring to projects like box86 that let you run x86 application on arm computers running arm versions of Linux.

Yeah, my wife’s a citizen of this country. I just recently got residency, but those restrictions still apply.

I just don’t have to renew my tourist visa anymore and I don’t have to fly out and back into the country trying to every 3 years.

It also lets me get employed by a private company without the need of a work visa.

But I still can’t hold professional jobs. I actually was looking into going to med school at one point to be a doctor here.

School is cheap here, then I found out that even if I go to med school here I’m not allowed to practice medicine.

It’s actually a bit annoying, but now there is one less doctor in this country.

Well I do refer to it as my neighborhood. But I do not speak the local language and I do not know all of the customs.

Even the style of speech in English is different than it is in America. I've been here for about 6 years, but you never really know a country and culture the way you know your own.

Just last week, my wife brought home a cheap snack from 7/11. OMG! It was so good, I've walked passed them for years only to discover they are my new favorite snack. I have been buying so many bags of them. This is the kind of stuff which makes me feel that this is a foreign country.

In addition to that, there are a number of things I am not able to do here that a citizen can. So in some ways, I can never fit in here. One example, is I cannot hold any professional positions, like lawyer, doctor, or any government position. I can also never own land here.

People are already using it to run various games.

This person is using it to play world of Warcraft on a raspberry pi.

I’m not saying it’s perfect and ready to go, but if valve puts a few engineers on it, we could have some decent performance in a few years. Just look at how far proton has come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5_ByVsiFM&pp=ygUFQm94ODY%3D

I’m not from this country so it’s foreign to me.

You could say you have a foreign friend, but does he stop being foreign once your friends or when he comes to visit? Or is he always a foreign friend?

I think they will not do a new processor for another year or so. They said it is years away.

With Snapdragon announcing their M2 like arm processor for desktop, I wonder if Steamdeck and these handhelds will start to switch to ARM?

There is already work being done on x86 to arm translation for Linux.

I do not think they will. But they said they will release steamOS for install on your own machine. It just runs Linux, so it should work on most desktop hardware without any problems.

Drug dealers say that police should not investigate the floor boards in the attic.

This is mainly due to Windows being incompetent getting an ARM version of Windows in a usable state.

Snapdragon claims to have a M2 level ARM chip for desktop/laptop. It will likely be pretty comparable to the M2, but what OS will it run? Not Windows. In fact at the enterprise level, Lenovo is selling laptops with Android in desktop mode.

So, once that chip is released, I am guessing you will see great options with Linux and Android. Who knows, maybe Microsoft will surprise us with an update that lets Windows run reasonable well on ARM.