@Oleksii @robinsyl #ARM64 grows because #Intel and #AMD basically gave up delivering compareable computing power in the same thermal, electrical and price envelope.

• See Z3735F (2,2W), N3010 (3W) & x5-E8000 (4W) having no successors of equally low TDP or even lower in production! The closest ist the i3-N300 (7W) and N95 (15W) respectably.

Add to it the rise of #SBCs like #RaspberryPi that further kicked the cost down in terms of basic computing and the big #Linux #community that welcomes cheap #hardware and does it's best to put it to good use.

• See the #MNTreform by @mntmn, which embraces #ComputeModules and doesn't have any #amd64 #mainboard (or rather #SOM) option AFAIK...

It truly confirms @landley 's saying that #Innovation in Computing it actually trickling up and thus #tech gets moved from the #Desk to the #Rack to "the #Cloud"...

• I mean, in many #DevelopingCountries the #Desktop and #Laptops get skipped for very cheap #Smartphones and cheaper #Tablets to the point that regular #PC's ain't common outside of businesses and government offices...

Obviously, I wished for truly #OpenSource'd #RISCv to take the place but that's about 5-25 years lagging behind #ARM due to #patents in many key technologies like #PowerSaving...

• But we've to admit that on a global scale, #Flathub is a #RoundingError in terms of #SoftwareDistribution, because not every Desktop - Linux distro supports it, much less uses it per default!

@StarkRG And also #SinglePlayer #games can actually be played #offline and people can actually use #Steam for #IndieGames even on #EDGEland-style throttled, mobile Internet unlike the #XboxOne at launch...

• Basically #Valve knows their customers VERY WELL and isn't friendly because of their "goodness of their own hearts" but because they need the goodwill of their #customers more than customers or #developers need Steam.

Similarly #SteamOS didn't get started because Valve "likes" #OpenSoure but because they saw #Windows8Bing and #Windows10S and realized that #Microsoft and #Apple trying to re-monopolize #SoftwareDistribution is an existential threat to the Company and they'll have to adapt or face extinction.