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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Qualcomm? Not... Arm in general?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We're talking about Qualcomm here, the company that made a deal with Microsoft to make Windows on ARM exclusive to Qualcomm SoC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I actually thought Qualcomm was quite cool, but that's an ass deal. On the other hand, it's Microsoft and I kind of hate them at this point

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I see you're not working in any industry having to deal with Qualcomm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It starts with them only doing initial talks about buying their hardware for a project with you for a 7-figure payment, and doesn't improve from there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No x86 is pretty much the only Platfrom I'm aware of where you can build a generic Kernel that will work with pretty much any hardware configuration out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There's ARM generic that some distros support, but depend on your CPU supporting UEFI

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Woah.

ARM sucks, lol.