Always complaints about battery/heat like the only thing people will try and play are AAA graphics champs. Hades isn’t hard to run. You can play the old Flatout games. Stardew Valley and Terreria with your cloud saves. There are tons of games coming out every year that looks like they could run on anything from a SNES to a PS Vita. Pretty much any game available on the Switch that is on Steam is super easy to run. Like the Ys games I’ve tried in Gamehub
On mobile Wuthering Waves, Zenless Zone Zero, Genshin Impact, etc are super popular. Warframe just released for mobile. Albion Online. People have some 5+ years outdated opinions mobile gaming
But y tho
Why would you use an ARM/Android device to emulate x86/Linux instead of the opposite?
Battery life, Android ecosystem is actually designed for a smaller form factor, cost. Wither or not these are good enough reasons are personal, but there are reasons.
There’s really not much of an advantage in efficiency with ARM anymore, but there is a huge loss in peak performance.
Android ecosystem is actually designed for a smaller form factor, cost.
Android is Linux
sigh say the thing!
Anyone who says “Linux” means GNU/Linux and anyone who says Android means Android/Linux.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Anyone who says “Linux” means GNU/Linux and anyone who says Android means Android/Linux.
What makes GNU/Linux? glibc! What about glibc is not optimized for “smaller form factor, cost”?
But y tho
Nvidia, Intel and AMD: their business now is circular money with AI and not PC gaming industry anymore.
Er, and you think ARM is somehow not involved?
What does AI have to do with this? It’s a Qualcomm chip, not made by any of those companies.
Nvidia, Intel and AMD: their business now is circular money with AI and not PC gaming industry anymore.
I don’t see how ARM, especially when Qualcomm is the only realistic option, is the solution here. Also, basic x86-64 patents have lapsed last year and newer extensions will lapse step by step. ARM64 is still so new, its initial patents will only lapse in 10 years.
