My company bought 5 snapdragon laptops to test - ended up returning all of them. They’re not bad per se, the operating system that they’re expected to run is. Windows for ARM has a looong way before it is production ready. Their biggest hurdle is the translation layer (similar to Rosetta 2 which works near flawlessly) that is so bad that if your program doesn’t have a native ARM build, you’re better off not even bothering. I’ve seen an article indicating that they improved it a lot in the current Windows insider build but we’ve already returned the laptops and switched over to AMD. In my opinion if Microsoft truly cares about Windows on ARM then it will be ready in a year or so. If they don’t… probably 2-3.
As per Linux, it works great, but that’s because most of the packages are FOSS and so compiling them for ARM doesn’t take a lot of effort. Sadly, Security at our company insists we run Windows so that spyware antivirus software can be installed on all end user machines.
Fun fact antivirus or spyware as you call it can also be installed on Linux.
It’s probably also easier and can likely be done more invasively considering that the company can control every step like the kernel and even app distribution.
As somebody who has done this unofficially for 10 years… Don’t do it. For the entirety of those 10 years IT knew something was odd with my computer (they didn’t see, IT was India based) but they couldn’t be bothered to do anything about it.
In a proper company they will know and swiftly act.
My company bought 5 snapdragon laptops to test - ended up returning all of them. They’re not bad per se, the operating system that they’re expected to run is. Windows for ARM has a looong way before it is production ready. Their biggest hurdle is the translation layer (similar to Rosetta 2 which works near flawlessly) that is so bad that if your program doesn’t have a native ARM build, you’re better off not even bothering. I’ve seen an article indicating that they improved it a lot in the current Windows insider build but we’ve already returned the laptops and switched over to AMD. In my opinion if Microsoft truly cares about Windows on ARM then it will be ready in a year or so. If they don’t… probably 2-3.
As per Linux, it works great, but that’s because most of the packages are FOSS and so compiling them for ARM doesn’t take a lot of effort. Sadly, Security at our company insists we run Windows so that
spywareantivirus software can be installed on all end user machines.Fun fact antivirus or spyware as you call it can also be installed on Linux.
It’s probably also easier and can likely be done more invasively considering that the company can control every step like the kernel and even app distribution.
While true, not all vendors support Linux, which is the case for myself.
Not to mention that we Linux usersvare kind of against sandboxing apps. Which keeps us some what behind on desktop stuff
Don’t ask for permission if most of what you do can be run from web apps. Its worked for me for a couple of years, I just can’t call IT :)
As somebody who has done this unofficially for 10 years… Don’t do it. For the entirety of those 10 years IT knew something was odd with my computer (they didn’t see, IT was India based) but they couldn’t be bothered to do anything about it.
In a proper company they will know and swiftly act.
Please don’t do this with a company machine.
This is such an awful idea.
This will at the best get you fired, worst sued.
Or imprisoned, depending on the industry and the risk you just caused.