So it makes me wonder how much Valve is paying them for support since the upcoming Steam Frame uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 CPU and is also running Steam OS which is just a fork of Arch.

As someone who used to have a Windows on Arm device. It was Hell. Basically anything that isn't Lenovo or from Microsoft will mean it'll eventually brick itself unless you steal drivers from other laptops. You also cannot reinstall the operating system because most of these nuggets have no device tree files in the firmware of the machine minus a few lenovo thinkpads. So that means when you try to reinstall windows there is a high likelihood your touchpad and keyboard and USB ports don't work. I literally snapped the motherboard on my poor Samsung Galaxy Book Go in half over it suddenly bricking itself. After a Windows update that I could not recover from.

Anyway if you want a decent windows on arm laptop buy lenovo and replace the storage. They have replacable nvmes usually. Also don't get the 8 gigabytes of ram versions you literally will have programs just refuse or just force close themselves out of existence. You will literally have to debloat windows upto even removing Windows Defender and stopping most background services and disabling sysmain because it's broken. You'd also have to disable certain things in Windows defender like memory protection if you want things to work right.

Also https://armrepo.ver.lt/ Is a god send for finding arm windows software.

Keep in mind though most web browsers as well that aren't Microsoft Edge will have rendering issues on older snapdragon socs.

You know if you really wanna rock the most powerful CPUs out thereonly to end up breaking it and using your 2017 spectre. Even if its like literally 10 times slower because atleast it just works.

I legit have trauma over this.

Their drivers are SHIT, for wifi there is CNSS, ICNSS, then QMI, all do the same thing, but differently, but NO, it's the same thing, but what does this do??? Is this really a different event or is this just rewritten in that event? Idk still, no one knows.

Edit: I tried to port the not working kernel drivers for the wifi on the Redmi Note 9s to postmarketos (wifi is not working), didn't work and it's now on LineageOS

And when you see how bad their windows support is it’s a miracle anyone buys this garbage.

It’s a neat concept. But at the moment only Apple has pulled it off well. And that’s only if you stick with Mac OS.

I'm not an Apple fanboy, but arm based processors seem to be working out fairly well for them.

I own an Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, which was one of the OG snapdragon x laptops released a (two?) and a half year(s) ago. It took a while for folks to get Linux to run on them and there's enough of a barrier to entry that it's still not very common. Most of the initial hurdles were due to Qualcomm bootloader shenanigans.

There's nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .