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Yes; Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord

To be fair, nix would probably be a lot more intuitive if commands were in black speech instead

cope and seethe, transphobe

Love how you just assume I’m from the west. I’m eastern european, my family is also, and we lived through everything - and I’ve yet to meet someone other than western investors and young kids who thinks things are good/better now

I’m deeply sorry that we don’t like supporting the oppression of marginalized groups here

Glad to have been informative :D and good luck on your laptop hunt

That’s correct, mea culpa; I’ve only seriously worked with qcom so entirely forgot that’s a thing. I’ll update my comment, thanks!

It’s complicated.

ARM system initialization doesn’t happen the same way as on x86 (the instruction set your computer is probably using unless you’re on a phone/tablet). On x86, once the CPU is initialized, it can inform the Linux kernel of what hardware is installed and how to talk to it through a protocol called ACPI. Thus, for Linux to work on a system, it must only support the CPU and some necessary hardware (e.g. I doubt you’ll have a usable system if USB, graphics, audio, and networking are unsupported, but otherwise it’s fine).

ARM functions quite differently; ACPI doesn’t exist ACPI is also usable on ARM but Qualcomm refuses to implement it, so instead the Linux kernel has to already know what hardware is installed and where through a configuration file called a device tree blob - basically weird JSON. Therefore it’s not enough that Linux supports the Snapdragon 7c (it does) - there must also be a builtin device tree config for your specific device. There likely is one; a simple way to check would be to look here for your device’s name (the Snapdragon 7c’s codename is SC7180, so the file you’re looking for would be sc7180-$vendor-$model.dts). If there isn’t and you’re willing to get moderately deep in the weeds, you can write your own device tree source file and load it into the kernel (assuming you have at least a rudimentary familiarity with programming, this is doable with a little dedication).

As for your other questions, you don’t need to worry too much about instruction set and architecture - being ARM will limit what software can run, but emulation is sort of okay too. It will, however, be far more power-efficient than a 6th gen Intel i3 if that’s what you care about - and gut instinct says faster.

It really depends on your usecase, though. If your budget is limited enough that these are serious options, I’d honestly recommend finding a decent second-hand laptop running something a bit better and more recent - but if you run mostly open-source software, don’t care about gaming at all, and are willing to get a little deeper than the average hobbyist for some extra battery life, the ARM laptop might be interesting.

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