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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

now we need some sort of hw-accelerated x86_64 layer but for linux

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there already Box64/Box32? Not to mention most Linux software is already compiled for ARM thanks to being open source.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yes, but you'll be missing out on ALL games, none of which are compiled for arm64.
also no, box64 is not hardware accelerated. both snapdragon and apple m series cpus have hardware magic that makes translation viable at all (as demonstrated by box64's (and even fex) piss poor performance)