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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Tyrone   
   Re: Dimdows-on-ARM Hitting Headwinds?   
   23 Jul 25 00:47:40   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:39:02 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
      
   > Actually Windows on Arm is just fine. I run it every day. The problem is   
   > STILL that lots of business-critical stuff has not been recompiled for   
   > Arm. So it either runs slowly in emulation or not at all, depending on   
   > how badly it was written.   
      
   In other words, Windows-on-ARM is *not* fine.   
      
   As I keep getting told over and over, people don’t want to run Windows,   
   they want to run their Windows apps. If those don’t work, then you might   
   as well forget it.   
      
   Until Microsoft can fix Windows-on-ARM, people aren’t going to touch it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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