[taraharris]

I'd go for ARM anyway. I don't need to run binaries from the 90s

[jsheard]

There's still a lot of current-day Windows software without native ARM builds, not to mention hardware drivers which can't even be used under emulation, and the current crop of Snapdragon ARM laptops don't have robust Linux support yet AFAIK. It's going to be an uphill battle compared to Apples ARM transition where they could force everyone to switch on pretty short notice or else get left behind.

[Pet_Ant]

One of the benefits of switching to any non-x86 platform would be forcing code to be cleaner and not have hidden assumptions about the platform and would thus be able to henceforth be easily compiled for any architecture. I'm sure there is some janky ARM-only cellphone software, but in the wider world it should a mistake we make again.

[andrewmcwatters]

I’m sure you’re running actually binaries that are several years old, or even decades old, every single day.