▲ 288 ▼ With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame. (www.theverge.com) submitted 9 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 6 points 9 months ago (3 children) It's not identical? They are different architectires. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) What does the architecture of the CPU have to do with the disk format? Nothing lol, linux arm can use ext4, btrfs, xfs etc same as it's x86 counterpart permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CameronDev@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) Any binaries saved on the SD card would need to be duplicated to both x86 and ARM. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago No they have FEX which translates x86 to arm instructions permalink fedilink source parent [–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 points 9 months ago Sure but with FEX it shouldn’t matter permalink fedilink source parent [–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) Despite being ARM CPUs and Linux based machines, I'm pretty sure most of what they play is Windows x86 binaries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago What I will find fascinating is that if Linux does get a major foothold this might be the way that we actually transition off of x86 because of having all these different translation layers and then we can start creating new and interesting CPU architectures that would be more efficient than stuff that's been sitting from the 80s but still having the backwards compatibility through translation layers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) What does the architecture of the CPU have to do with the disk format? Nothing lol, linux arm can use ext4, btrfs, xfs etc same as it's x86 counterpart permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CameronDev@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) Any binaries saved on the SD card would need to be duplicated to both x86 and ARM. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago No they have FEX which translates x86 to arm instructions permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) Any binaries saved on the SD card would need to be duplicated to both x86 and ARM. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago No they have FEX which translates x86 to arm instructions permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago No they have FEX which translates x86 to arm instructions permalink fedilink source parent
[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 points 9 months ago Sure but with FEX it shouldn’t matter permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) Despite being ARM CPUs and Linux based machines, I'm pretty sure most of what they play is Windows x86 binaries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago What I will find fascinating is that if Linux does get a major foothold this might be the way that we actually transition off of x86 because of having all these different translation layers and then we can start creating new and interesting CPU architectures that would be more efficient than stuff that's been sitting from the 80s but still having the backwards compatibility through translation layers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago What I will find fascinating is that if Linux does get a major foothold this might be the way that we actually transition off of x86 because of having all these different translation layers and then we can start creating new and interesting CPU architectures that would be more efficient than stuff that's been sitting from the 80s but still having the backwards compatibility through translation layers permalink fedilink source parent