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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think your experience is representative of a generic user. This video from Level1Techs paints a completely different picture. Gaming for example, is pretty much out of the picture in the ARM version of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Performance of the snapdragons is roughly that of an i7 from a decade ago - so yes, it's a good machine for office tasks and light development, but in no way suitable for gaming. That's not a Windows problem, though, just the hardware is not suitable for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

No. You can't game on it meaning that the games do not even launch.