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I'm all for ARM and having thin laptops / tablets running full desktop Linux... however it's going to be a pain, there's a LOT of X86_64 software out there that is hard to get running on ARM with decent performance. And some of those things can't get ported.
Besides that the ARM ecosystem is a fucking mess of companies who don't want to implement a generic UEFI thus you'll never get generic support from OSes like there is on x86. I believe this this is the defining moment of ARM, when the CPU makers actually make UEFI a requirement and we no longer have to do the hacks and nonsenses we see on SBCs to get those CPUs running.
SystemReady is already a thing. When it becomes mandatory for design wins hopefully it will become more common place.