Oh okay, I had assumed compiling would be a bit more I/O bound, while gaming would be a bit more CPU bound, but I guess you're right about the benchmarks!

Reminds me of this skit: https://youtu.be/oOFlN_qTCf0

My understanding is that most of that all lives in mesa, and the kernel driver basically just abstracts the hardware.

Epic!

I've never seen that on modern AMD stuff that uses radv, but I'm sure it's probably fine.

Yep!

Are you only using QEMU, or are you using some sort of wrapper around it? QEMU is quite advanced, if you aren't already, I'd recommend you use some sort of GUI like virt-manager or something.

Can you share your config?

Does it BSOD or just reboot after the Windows logo?

You might have to pass the drives through as IDE, Windows might not have the proper drivers for anything else. Once you can get it booting you can mount a blank drive as virtio, install the virtio drivers, and then change the OS drive to virtio.

WARNING KVM acceleration not available, using 'qemu'

That's related to hardware virtualisation, like the other person said, check that it's enabled.

WARNING Using --osinfo generic, VM performance may suffer. Specify an accurate OS for optimal results.

This is related to --os-variant=generic, I don't remember what Home Assistant OS is based off, but find out and pick an option from virt-install --os-variant list, otherwise use linux2022.

ERROR internal error: Could not run '/usr/bin/swtpm_setup'.

I'm not sure why it's attaching a TPM, but I believe --tpm clearxml=true should remove it.

I believe I've actually had this happen with actual VLC, I think I just hit pause and then play and it was fixed. So maybe pause it for half a second after your seek.

Because how can linux ARM run on a device that used to run windows x86?

Have you misread AMD64 as ARM64?

AMD64 is the 64bit extension of x86, often also called x86_64.

As others has said, ARM is a completely different architecture which is not compatible with x86 without translation layers. ARM also has a 64bit version called ARM64 (or AArch64).

Sure it let's you use it asynchronously, but it predates and is not really compatible with JavaScript's async/Promise API.

It improves memory access to the GPU, but I don't believe it's required for Intel ARC anymore.

would I have to change my actual XMPP port? Yes.

You could port scan portquiz.net to find other unblocked ports if you want to use the same IP, or get a VPS or something to do the VPNing (Oracle cloud have free ones, or a cheap one will do).