Developers don't develop on Surface books, and Macbooks are in low percentages.
The majority of people in the world writing code are using x86 PCs and Microsoft and Apple aren't about to change that with any *Book.
Linus' premise that everyone will continue to use x86 for development is because they will.
There's no incentive for companies or individuals to go switch out all of that x86 hardware sitting on desks and in racks with ARM alternatives which will offer them lower performance than their already slightly aged hardware at initially higher costs.
I can forsee _some_ interest in ARM cloud, and I don't think it'll be the issue Linus claims at higher-than-systems-level, but I absolutely would bet on x86 going nowhere in the human-software interface space in the foreseeable future.
The majority of people in the world writing code are using x86 PCs and Microsoft and Apple aren't about to change that with any *Book.
Linus' premise that everyone will continue to use x86 for development is because they will.
There's no incentive for companies or individuals to go switch out all of that x86 hardware sitting on desks and in racks with ARM alternatives which will offer them lower performance than their already slightly aged hardware at initially higher costs.
I can forsee _some_ interest in ARM cloud, and I don't think it'll be the issue Linus claims at higher-than-systems-level, but I absolutely would bet on x86 going nowhere in the human-software interface space in the foreseeable future.