▲ 114 ▼ SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 2 years ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FailBait@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Rosetta. But part of the CPU had x86 translation functions built in to help so not as useful here. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago* Wine and Rosetta are fundamentally different things. Wine is a reimplementation of Windows APIs on Linux, whereas Rosetta is hardware emulation (famously, Wine Is Not an Emulator). The equivalent of Rosetta on Linux is QEMU, and specifically qemu-user-static. The thing about hardware emulation, though, is that it has a non-trivial processor overhead. Apple Silicon gets away with it because it's a very fast chip which has been designed partly with hardware emulation in mind. Trying to emulate x86 on some generic off-the-shelf mobile ARM chip is not going to give great results. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FailBait@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Rosetta. But part of the CPU had x86 translation functions built in to help so not as useful here. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago* Wine and Rosetta are fundamentally different things. Wine is a reimplementation of Windows APIs on Linux, whereas Rosetta is hardware emulation (famously, Wine Is Not an Emulator). The equivalent of Rosetta on Linux is QEMU, and specifically qemu-user-static. The thing about hardware emulation, though, is that it has a non-trivial processor overhead. Apple Silicon gets away with it because it's a very fast chip which has been designed partly with hardware emulation in mind. Trying to emulate x86 on some generic off-the-shelf mobile ARM chip is not going to give great results. permalink fedilink source parent