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Sadly some companies are stubborn and just won't support ARM. For instance if you need to use Autodesk Revit for work, you are sentenced to Windows x86 hell.

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My favorite unsupported configuration is Homebrew, they support Arm-OSX but do not support Arm-Linux and now that they have moved to binary downloads, I find it difficult to even build the homebrew recipes.

Back when homebrew was source build first and Linux was first class, it was the best. Now it has become the thing it replaced, MacPorts.

By what mechanism is Revit locked to x86?

E.g., does it refuse to run on an emulator? Or some bizarre license issue?

It works on an emulator, but user experience is poor.

Is that an x86 translation issue, or a graphics issue? The chips Qualcomm has shipped so far for ARM PCs have bad graphics hardware and worse drivers. And that's the best case, where the ARM system is at least running Windows and nominally supporting DirectX. If you try to run on a Linux system, you add in more layers of API translation that have nothing to do with the CPU instruction set.

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