extra_specticles t1_j8d41ne wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:39 PM

Reply to comment by AloofPenny in Open-Source, RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade by Avieshek

ARM Windows has existed for absolutely years. First version was in 2011 iIIRC. I'm not shitting on things I don't know about - I'm just pointing out how I've seen the market evolve.

KingdomOfBullshit t1_j8dh00o wrote on February 13, 2023 at 2:32 PM

Windows CE on ARM has an even longer history. I still miss my HP Jornada 720 with it's StrongARM SA-1110. Pretty sure I had that before or right around Y2K.

moepsenstreusel t1_j8dx6y4 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:25 PM

Yeah, but Windows CE wasn't in any meaningful sense Windows.

It was one of the generation of puny, souped-up embedded OSes (Symbian, BlackBerry) that slimmed-down, desktop-class OSes iOS and Android killed.

KingdomOfBullshit t1_j8dy4eu wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Honestly though, Windows CE was the best of these for me. It had a proper GUI, networking support, compatibility with PowerPoint/Word/Excel, awesome battery life, good support for printing and external displays and a decent SDK. It lacked win32 support but it checked all the other boxes for me. Couldn't say that about any palm pilot I had.

Edit: forgot to mention that, of course I agree it was a different beast than windows

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AloofPenny t1_j8d4jc2 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:44 PM

https://amp.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3178109/tech-war-china-bets-open-source-risc-v-chip-design-minimise-potential there you go. There’s the market. It exists already. Because the US forced it

extra_specticles t1_j8d4uqw wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:47 PM

Yes and like I said it may be the case for China. But outside of the restrictions on China - the most massive laptop markets do not use Linux. And it's won't happen in those markets until major desktop OS support is created from Windows and perhaps MacOs (which I doubt)