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Since they didn't mention it I'm guessing x86 only chrome books ?

AFIACT, it's a "no but yes" sort of answer. Linux games are free to build binaries for any architecture they wish, but any game relying on Proton because it's a Windows binary will require x86.

Good news is, any of us in here are going to buy whatever we want and aren't limited to Chromebooks. Its everyone else that is screwed by the virtual duopoly of Windows and !Windows.

That's not entirely clear to me. Windows on Arm has some weird sort of compatibility layer that could also exist here. It's a different environment but I'm able to run (some) x86 windows programs on an Arm Windows virtual machine, unmodified, under Parallels on an M1 MacBook. Boggles my mind how it all works together, but it does.

there are projects like fex and box86/box64 that are trying to do for linux what windows is doing and what rosetta 2 is doing.

There's Box86 and Box64 which run x86/ARM64 binaries on ARM64 fairly well. People have gotten games like Portal 2 running on a PinePhone Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPr0Aw3xZrA

Box86 and Box64 will make it possible to run x86 games on ARM too. https://boilingsteam.com/box64-can-now-run-crysis-on-arm-wit...

Seems like it, at least for now

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/steam-gaming-on-chrome...

Anything else would be highly unlikely.

I imagine they could pressure manufacturers into building some kind of virtual translation layer with accelerated graphics.

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