[alecsm]

Valve is gonna save the day once again.

[alimbada]

I was about to comment to say that unless Valve is prepared to invest significant effort into an x86 -> ARM translation layer that's not going to happen but a quick search for "linux x86 to arm translation" led me to an XDA article[1] proving me wrong. The recently announced Steam Frame runs on ARM and can run x86 games directly using using something called FEX.

Now we just need to be as good as (or better than) Apple's Rosetta.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-translation-layer-steam-f...

[alecsm]

From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126446

[LoganDark]

Apple Silicon actually has microarchitectural quirks implementing certain x86-isms in hardware for Rosetta 2 to use. I doubt any other ARM SoC would do such a thing, so I doubt third-party translation will ever get quite as efficient.

[pjmlp]

Running Windows stuff.....

[alecsm]

I don't use Windows but I do run a lot of software made only for Windows. I don't see any problem with that.

[bigyabai]

I quite prefer that to the alternative of not running Windows stuff.

[650REDHAIR]

Isn't Valve's new VR headset running ARM?

I have faith!