Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish
30-06-2026 16:30 via theregister.com

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

A Red Hat build engineer has ended his second experimental effort at using a high-end Arm64 desktop computer as his daily driver. His conclusions are instructive. Marcin Juszkiewicz’s series of posts on his tech blog about running a Fedora-powered beast of an Arm desktop computer has been interesting reading for about a year now. Almost exactly a year ago, he built a beast of an Arm workstation. He spent some €1,800 building a machine around an Ampere Altra, which as The Register desc
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