I’m happy to see ARM gaining enough traction these days to be a solid alternative to x64. I’m happy to run it for server workloads but I’m skeptical it’s ready to replace my AMD PC desktop.

Granted, I haven’t been paying super close attention to the state of the art for the past few years, but from what I gather Apple was a major catalyst in the uptake of ARM for the desktop. Ironically, we have Intel’s abysmal Skylake QC to thank for that 😅

How is Linux ARM support these days? Any particularly outstanding distro that shines on ARM?

You understand it fine.

Intel thought they could get away with their usual MO of “make a leap forward in technology and slowly meter it out over time” forever. Now that we’re running into physics limitations, AMD has fully caught up and even sprinted past Intel for certain workloads.

I used to prefer Intel+nvidia for pc builds, but when the last generation of the Core lineup fell a bit flat I built a Ryzen+Radeon setup that’s been kicking ass for years.

I’m content to just let Intel hang themselves with their own rope.