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[–] BB_C@programming.dev -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  • Not all x86 laptops are like you describe.
  • Non-Apple ARM laptops exist. They in fact predate Apple's move to ARM. Not only that, Linux was actually the primary target platform for many of them.
[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The bit you quoted from the post explicitly said "most x86 laptops", not "all".

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

even if he wrote "half", he would still be wrong, and still suffering from multiple levels of dissonance.