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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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That was Mac when the M1 dropped, buy their problem is most of the stuff isn't open source and one has to wait for the publisher to recompile on an ARM device. I expect a bunch of software to just be recompiled remotely or locally if you have such a distro (Gentoo, Arch, NixOS,...) and not even notice a difference.
A lot of stuff already has ARM builds because of the raspberry pi. Many docker images have ARM versions too.
This isn't going to be the clusterfuck it was on Malus chips, except for maybe gaming because it's in the same place. Asahi Linux is dealing with that right now too (donating can help).
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My other answer here: https://lemmy.world/comment/10549598