Now this puts a smile on my face. I know Android is looking nux based, but I am thinking of Ubuntu Phone idea a decade ago, later tried with Samsung and their desktop integration. You have your phone, where you recieve emails and stuff, then at work it goes in a dock and boom, there is your desktop, a real Linux one, where you can work on.
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Arm Linux software is relatively sparse, so users will likely want to emulate x86 and Windows applications
What? That doesn't sound right at all. Many things can be recompiled to target a new architecture, and lots of stuff is written in an interpreted language with an interpreter for ARM.
lol yeah…. Debian has has an arm64 variant since version 8:
98% of Debian is currently built: over 12200 source (arch-specific) packages. https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port
It is true that for gaming we’re back into emulating x64 and translating Windows APIs via WINE and maybe Proton but almost all Linux software will work natively.
Will all the needed binary blobs survive a kernel update? Cus that's a blocker for both long term and distro wide support.