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CodeWeavers announced this morning a new CrossOver Preview that includes Linux ARM64 support for the first time. This commercial software built atop Wine is now comfortable with the state of running Windows x86/x64 apps on Linux ARM64 and even the ability ro enjoy many Windows games on ARM64 Linux devices like the System76 Thelio Astra.

CodeWeavers' CrossOver is now available in preview form for Linux ARM64 devices. This builds off all the upstream Wine ARM64 work the past several years. CodeWeavers engineers did a lot of testing of this port using the System76 Thelio Astra desktop with Ampere Altra processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics

With Intel having sunset Clear Linux, when it comes to aggressive out-of-the-box Linux performance there is the Arch Linux based CachyOS as the leading contender. Given the recent releases of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, if you are curious about the out-of-the-box performance here are some fresh benchmarks of all three using the Framework Desktop.