Got it, yeah I misunderstood your comment as meaning there was no translation layer at all.
For me it’s just something to keep an eye on. I think ARM holds a lot of promise as x86 has started to feel a bit stagnant. Things like FEX could minimally be a good way to ensure backwards compatibility if devs start embracing ARM in any major way, but I suspect it is years out, if it happens at all.
But if I get a Frame, it would 100% be for the streaming.
The answer is that they arent…
You have the choice of streaming to Frame or running games directly on the device. If the latter, they’re utilizing FEX as the ARM translation layer.
Of course performance will be best with streaming, but I’m still surprised you can run anything at all locally.
Linux gaming is here. I haven’t run Windows in 3+ years at this point. The world has changed.
I’m more intrigued by how they’re now also running x86 code on ARM at a playable level (e.g. locally on Frame).
And given the history of BIOS as a concept, I guess that isn’t too surprising.
I wonder how much of that kind of thing stems from the fact that many of the really hardcore PC tinkerers aren’t using ARM (yet).