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> because every past Rapsberry Pi thread has been inundated with comments encouraging everyone to get a NUC or a used computer instead.

The thing is, they are all x86. The currently available ways to get an ARM general purpose computer are... Raspberry, Raspberry clones of various degrees of shittyness, Apple's lineup and a few Chromebooks plus even rarer Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them.

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x86 is generally better, because it's a standardized platform that is universally supported. With ARM you inevitably run into headaches if you expect to run an OS that isn't provided by the manufacturer.

> Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them

You might want to give Windows on Arm another spin if you haven't touched it lately, because you're either operating on very outdated information or you work in a very narrow field. Everything I tried throwing at it runs on mine. Exceptions are some drivers and kernel mode anticheat in games.

They got 3% of market share [1]. That's laughable, no one tests for that, and I personally won't touch Qualcomm crap with a ten foot pole if I can avoid it.

[1] https://itdaily.com/blogs/workplace/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-pc...

They didn't dispute market share, they were just suggesting that the software deficiencies you were pointing out are outdated.

2027 is the year of the Linux.. er. ARM Windows desktop!

What about a $500 Mac Mini?

x86, so what? What's the problem you are trying to solve? Does arm or x86 matter for them?

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