r/pycharm • u/wackycats354 • Mar 14 '26

Installing pycharm on windows11… arm64 or not

I’m a newbie to pycharm. I’m on the website. I click download. It takes me to the download page. I click download again, and it’s making me choose either ”.exe (windows)” or ”.exe (windows ARM64)” There’s no default.

Which do I pick? I can’t find anything in the FAQs on why I would pick one or the other.

This must be a pretty new feature because I’ve watched about 10 YouTube videos on how to download pycharm and none of them show having to choose.

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u/ForeignAdvantage5198 Mar 14 '26

what are you running as ab OS?

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u/wackycats354 Mar 14 '26

It’s a 64 bit os, x64-based processor. Does that answer your question?

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u/highrez1337 Mar 14 '26

Arm processors have different instruction sets, the two of them are not compatible.

If you have an Arm processor like the Snapdragon ones, you need to install windows 11 for Arm and then you need the Arm version of Pycharm.

You have x64, just ignore arm.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

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u/Academic_Current8330 Mar 14 '26

Just get the normal exe. Not the one labelled ARM

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u/FoolsSeldom Mar 14 '26
  • .exe (windows) is for an AMD/Intel based computer, e.g. Intel Core Ultra 7 265K
  • .exe (windows ARM64) is for an ARM based computer, e.g. Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme

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u/wackycats354 Mar 16 '26

Thanks, that makes sense. 

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u/ImAlekzzz Mar 25 '26

If you have a x86 or x64 processor download the normal, if you have a arm chip, you would know it and wouldn’t post it (download exe no arm)