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title: "Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/red-hat-arm-engineer-abandons-arm64-linux-personal-desktop-goes-back-to-amd-ryzen-system-6mlxvv1aj
source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-ARM-Engineer-Back-Ryzen
type: article
source: "Phoronix"
published: 2026-06-29T14:31:33.864Z
updated: 2026-06-29T14:32:02.952Z
tags: ["linux", "hardware", "gpu"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 5
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# Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

**[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 3 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Red Hat ARM Team engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz spent nearly a year using an Ampere Altra 80-core AArch64 system as his primary Linux desktop, built around an ASRockRack board with AMD Radeon graphics. After eleven months, he abandoned the experiment and returned to his AMD Ryzen x86_64 desktop. Key pain points included weak single-threaded performance, recurring PCIe controller issues requiring weekly custom kernel patches, AMDGPU driver bugs on Linux 7.0+ causing video and gaming regressions on ARM64, and missing NVIDIA Flatpak support for AArch64 after switching to Nouveau. He concluded that the problems were platform-specific quirks rather than fundamental architectural flaws, and that a future AArch64 desktop attempt would require entirely new hardware. The Ampere Altra system now runs headlessly for RISC-V package builds where its multi-core throughput shines.

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