Yes and no. If you're running *nix, odds are your mostly open-source system will be running software built for ARM. And if you aren't, my understanding is that x86 emulation is pretty good.
Wine can also do this neat hybrid emulation trick. Your x86 application runs in an emulator until it hits a Windows syscall, then it hops out of emulation to run the syscall on native ARM machine code Wine, then jumps back into emulation to keep running your application.
They’re longing for more battery life. I’ve had a few Linux based laptops. The oryx pro I had about 6 years had an nvidia chip set and could game. But the battery life was miserable (2-3 hours).
But currently get decent battery life from the amd cpu in my new work and home machines. 6-8 hour working the machine quite hard.
If you want an “external” gpu I’m not sure how well that works on Arm.
I have little reason to switch, though I appreciate the competition making everything better.
Do people actually want ARM laptops? Wouldn't that immediately render a ton of x86 software obsolete?