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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I understand the technical challenges with running x86 apps on arm... but multiple wrappers that do something similar to proton have already been released.

If you follow the r/emulationonandroid subreddit, they have gotten PC games working on android for a while now. One of the wrappers, gamehub, has made it to the playstore. You can just sign in to your steam account (don't do that gamehub is sketchy af, proprietary, and by a company that stole gpl code fro, yuzu and didn't release a derivative product), download games, and play them.

The current concern is performance, but most lower and midrange games run just fine.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a lot of programs will likely run fine. The common issues will be solved. But the subtle ones will be frustrating. Plus I worry about a situation where apps target x64 and run on ARM but aren't supported on ARM, kinda like what we've got with games on linux right now.