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Is Windows-on-ARM ready for prime time yet? Consider these issues <https://www.zdnet.com/article/thinking-of-buying-an-arm-based-windows-pc-these-three-issues-might-be-dealbreakers/>
before you decide:

* Doing a restore of a system image backup of your Windows install
won’t work. You have to reinstall Windows and your apps, and then
restore data files separately:

I tried everything I could think of to make that external drive
accessible, but nothing worked. It took days of working with tech
support for backup software developers and PC manufacturers to
discover that it's a known shortcoming of the Windows Recovery
Environment on Arm platforms.

* You probably can’t install Linux. At least, not right now. I’m sure
that’ll be fixed at some point, if only to stop these abandoned Arm
PCs from becoming landfill. ;)

As I discovered when I tried to install Ubuntu Linux on the Dell
XPS 13 9345, there's no readily available installation image of
the latest LTS version for Arm. Ubuntu 25.10 was just released in
mid-October and includes an Arm version, but that is a
bleeding-edge option, as the comments on the Ubuntu Community
Discourse server for this distro make clear.

* Serious gaming -- forget it:

The good folks at PC Gamer surveyed the landscape in early 2025,
asking the question "Are Snapdragon chips any good for gaming?"
Their answer was a disappointing "Well, maybe one day."

In short, I would say wait for the Linux support to become seamless.
Then you can accept these ARM-based machines as a serious computing
platform.
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