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Qualcomm? Not... Arm in general?
We're talking about Qualcomm here, the company that made a deal with Microsoft to make Windows on ARM exclusive to Qualcomm SoC.
I actually thought Qualcomm was quite cool, but that's an ass deal. On the other hand, it's Microsoft and I kind of hate them at this point
I see you're not working in any industry having to deal with Qualcomm.
Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?
It starts with them only doing initial talks about buying their hardware for a project with you for a 7-figure payment, and doesn't improve from there.
Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?
No x86 is pretty much the only Platfrom I'm aware of where you can build a generic Kernel that will work with pretty much any hardware configuration out of the box.
There's ARM generic that some distros support, but depend on your CPU supporting UEFI
Woah.
ARM sucks, lol.