I’ve seen people talking about it and experienced it myself with a server, but why does Linux run so well on ARM (especially compared to Windows)?

  • unfnknblvbl@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Windows, by contrast, was built for descendants of the Intel 8088, period.

    This is not quite true. Windows NT was built to support multiple architectures from the start.

    • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
      18·
      1 year ago

      NT is not the majority of windows code though; for windows to be multi architecture, all of windows needs to work with the new architecture; NT, drivers & userspace.

      For Linux, if an existing userspace application doesn’t work in aarch64, somebody somewhere will build a port. For windows, so much of their stuff is proprietary that Microsoft are the only ones able to build that port.

      Not because “windows bad”, just a consequence of such a locked down system which doesn’t have anything open source to inherit.