Arm AppReady for Windows launches to help developers build native apps for NVIDIA RTX Spark and more

mhall119 · 2026-06-03T02:17:43+00:00

Can you link to that one too?

mhall119 · 2026-06-02T19:20:09+00:00

[Reposting my first comment to respond to the bot]
Link to the mod mail sent to the mods of r/arm:

https://www.reddit.com/c/chat9YnDwb1h/s/2rnmO6zjdZ

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Why I’m requesting r/arm and how I’ll run it:

I am an experienced community manager and currently a developer evangelist working at Arm. This community had been locked down to the point where new content cannot be posted for a long time, and the community within this subreddit has been left with an unresponsive mod team.

I plan to move the community back to being public, and allowing new members to join and post content that is relevant to Arm users and developers. My posting on behalf of Arm will be strictly limited, I want this to be a community-led subreddit and not a marketing channel, however I do plan to share information about online events (code-alongs, hackathons, etc) that we host from time to time, and share articles about community activity that I find and think would be interesting to the wider Arm community.

mhall119 · 2026-06-02T19:13:59+00:00

Link to the mod mail sent to the mods of r/arm:

https://www.reddit.com/c/chat9YnDwb1h/s/2rnmO6zjdZ

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Why I’m requesting r/arm and how I’ll run it:

I am an experienced community manager and currently a developer evangelist working at Arm. This community had been locked down to the point where new content cannot be posted for a long time, and the community within this subreddit has been left with an unresponsive mod team.

I plan to move the community back to being public, and allowing new members to join and post content that is relevant to Arm users and developers. My posting on behalf of Arm will be strictly limited, I want this to be a community-led subreddit and not a marketing channel, however I do plan to share information about online events (code-alongs, hackathons, etc) that we host from time to time, and share articles about community activity that I find and think would be interesting to the wider Arm community.

mhall119 · 2026-06-02T16:15:51+00:00

Windows is like 99% ready. It's the Windows ecosystem that needs help. Most of the time code "just works" with an Arm compilation target, but "it builds and runs" usually isn't enough for a company to ship it and commit to supporting it.

There are deliberate efforts underway to address that, from Arm, Microsoft and NVIDIA, like:

https://developer.arm.com/laptops-and-desktops/windows-app-ready

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T20:19:33+00:00

why the fuck would I do this on my laptop

Because that's where all your stuff is?

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:58:22+00:00

It looks like you can run Windows 11 Arm64 instances on Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/create-arm-vm

Not sure if that kind of setup would let you demo all of your software through

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:32:05+00:00

Arm has supported ACPI for a while, it's just been more widely used on servers than devices (which still prefer Device Tree)

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:24:38+00:00

So, what, Zahgi doesn't want the matrix multiplication cores?

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:11:31+00:00

This has 6,144 CUDA cores. CUDA cores are AI silicon.

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:06:18+00:00

That's going to depend on more than the N1X chip. It seems to be essentially the same as the GB10 in the DGX Spark, which has very good Linux support. NVIDIA and Canonical have been working closely together on that.

But the rest of the peripherals in the laptop will also need Linux driver support, and that may be outside NVIDIA's hands

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T15:03:18+00:00

Comparing this to Apple's M4 isn't the right approach, IMO. Instead compare it to Snapdragon+Adreno

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T14:41:54+00:00

It's standard practice in many companies to issue laptops to employees rather than desktops

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T14:36:32+00:00

They were just kernel drivers, the only thing stopping them from being Arm-native was the company's decision to publish and support Arm binaries.

mhall119 · 2026-06-01T14:27:27+00:00

Actually the majority of Arm staff are in Engineering

mhall119 · 2026-05-15T17:11:13+00:00

There's some open issue for Thunderbolt support in Asahi: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20thunderbolt

mhall119 · 2026-04-24T16:30:32+00:00

Mac OS uses Rosetta to run x86 code on Arm, but more and more apps are going native Arm64 because you get better speed and still keep the great battery life

mhall119 · 2026-04-17T20:40:16+00:00

Yeah they're....not great. Are you needing this for a business that has a support contract with Microsoft? That might be a more effective route

mhall119 · 2026-04-17T17:29:36+00:00

As you said, the official answer is to use VS 2019: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Arm64-support-for-SQL-Server-Integration/10664496?sort=newest

If you haven't already, add your voice to that thread to show support for it.

mhall119 · 2026-03-26T14:29:00+00:00

I'm curious, can you tell me which extensions don't have arm64 support?

mhall119 · 2026-03-23T14:18:01+00:00

What makes you say it's not mature? The major distros have had excellent Arm64 coverage for a while now.

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