Folding Forum

Yup. It is maintained by third parties.
I think you can email them, or leave a comment on
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foldingathome

The most effective place for enhancement requests is github. The dev doesn’t generally read this forum. https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-web-client-bastet/issues There is also a release discussion for testing feedback on github. https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-client-bastet/discussions/308

You might be able to run the x86 Win client with a performance penalty.
You might be able to run the Linux ARM client via WSL.

No to Windows ARM
Maybe to Linux Snapdragon X

It is my understanding that Metal turned out to not provide a significant performance improvement over OpenCL in OpenMM.

If there is ever a GPU core for macOS, it will use the deprecated OpenCL.
Assuming Apple doesn't remove it.

I think the initial ARM porting was done by a third party. Neocortix?

If you wait long enough, the core might get rebuilt with older libs. Long enough could be a long time.

I usually ignore people who are double posting.

But that just makes the core not launch.

I believe core 24 currently requires Ubuntu 22 or later because of glibc

They are. An old thread was kinda hijacked.

Big.little is really not a problem on macOS, as long as you don’t exceed p-core count.

The latest web control url is
https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/

Seems like there are a lot of enthusiastic people with M4 mini on reddit. Maybe you can get someone there to try fah.

client.db is currently a sqlite3 file, so it’s easy to peek at. Please don’t modify anything. It may be locked while client runs. I don’t know if you can read a locked file.

client.db will be in the client working directory. On Linux I think that’s ~fah-client for the service install. It is printed in log at launch.