• shroomad@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    wait does this mean I will be able to install it on my PS Vita?!
    Steam Deck is too big for my tiny hands!

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      1 year 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.

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          1 year ago

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

          You could use google…

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            1 year 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

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

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

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          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.