翠星石 on Nostr: feld Windows still can only run on x86 and AMD64 (with a ton on x86 cruft). The ARM ...
feld (npub1yck…ujmw) Windows still can only run on x86 and AMD64 (with a ton on x86 cruft).
The ARM builds heavily rely on a x86 JIT for most of the OS (as they can't get most of the landfill fire to compile on anything but x86 and AMD64).
m$ has had an agreement with apple to provide a version for macos for decades, as they understand that apple has plenty of money to throw at reverse engineering their proprietary office formats and write programs that can semi-reliably read and write them (thus giving freedom enjoyers two different implementations to reverse engineer and use to improve libreoffice), so they opt to provide a office port to keep their iron grip on governments and businesses (although the poor malware authors they employee have to suffer to keep the dumpster fire compiling on multiple architectures).
The ARM builds heavily rely on a x86 JIT for most of the OS (as they can't get most of the landfill fire to compile on anything but x86 and AMD64).
m$ has had an agreement with apple to provide a version for macos for decades, as they understand that apple has plenty of money to throw at reverse engineering their proprietary office formats and write programs that can semi-reliably read and write them (thus giving freedom enjoyers two different implementations to reverse engineer and use to improve libreoffice), so they opt to provide a office port to keep their iron grip on governments and businesses (although the poor malware authors they employee have to suffer to keep the dumpster fire compiling on multiple architectures).