• Björn Tantau
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    68 months ago

    In case this is not a joke, Steam only runs on x86 processors. The Vita has an ARM processor. But I bet someone made some Linux that runs on the Vita. Just not with Steam games.

    • shroomad
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      38 months ago

      it’s not a joke, I don’t know shit about processors

        • shroomad
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          18 months ago

          I did, “steam os run on vita” didn’t give me anything. I’m not about to learn all about processors to answer this simple question lol that’s silly

    • @Rin@lemm.ee
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      28 months ago

      apple made a wine for arm to x86 translation, i forget the name.

      • @FailBait@lemmy.world
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        38 months ago

        Rosetta. But part of the CPU had x86 translation functions built in to help so not as useful here.

      • @Patch@feddit.uk
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        8 months 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.