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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)

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A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (23 children)

It would be great if we could get a steamdeck that runs one of these arm chips.

I wonder if valve is already experimenting with something like this. Maybe another they will have something like box64 too

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Not sure why you'd want an ARM-based handheld to play PC games at this point in time. Pretty much all PC games are available in x86 only, and any efficiency gains these fancy new ARM chips supposedly have will be lost when translating x86 to ARM.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (10 children)

and any efficiency gains these fancy new ARM chips supposedly have will be lost when translating x86 to ARM.