Interest in KDE-on-Windows-on-ARM and/or CoPilot+ ?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.io>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
>
> > Microsoft is offering some kind of engineering support for people that
> publish
> > apps-for-windows, in getting those apps to also work on Windows-on-ARM
> and
> > CoPilot+ PCs (I suppose that means "An ARM CPU with some neural
> co-processor
> > tacked on"). If there's any interest, we can set you up with them,
> otherwise
> > we'll decline this thrilling opportunity.
> >
>
> > [ade]
> >
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> > PS. Feel free to pass this on, I don't really know where KDE-on-Windows
> lives
> > these days.
>
> I guess that just would mean adding ARM Windows support and builders for
> craft.
>
> Not sure if that makes real sense given the sparse use of ARM Windows
> machines and I guess
> MS will not just pay our building machines and I don't see any need for
> engineering support :)
>

This would mostly be an engineering thing, as we already have ARM native
hardware to support Flatpak and Snap builds as both of those do not support
cross compilation (sadly, as the ARM hardware is at least 2x the cost of
amd64 hardware)

As far as I am aware though Windows on ARM isn't something that can be
freely / easily downloaded?


>
> But that is just my opinion.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph


Thanks,
Ben
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