• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Getting there—the last time I checked, Gentoo had enough stuff with ~riscv keywords to produce a KDE desktop with Firefox, a media player, email, and some other useful software. If Firefox is completely functional, that alone would be enough for some people. Still not user-friendly to install, though, because Gentoo. Debian’s better at that part. Anyway, if you can get the hardware, the software is edging up on “possible”.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not long ago Pine64 announced their Pinetab-V with RISC-V infrastructure and absolutely no software support, now people are already running KDE Plasma and watching YouTube videos with it. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but I’m amazed how fast it’s developing.

      I really don’t think we’re that far away from being able to run RISK-V as a daily driver for basic computing.

      And I gotta say, my partner recently got a M1 MacBook Air, and while I have many reservations about the device I’m jealous about the fanlessnes and battery life. So I’d absolutely be interested in being an early adopter.

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      1 year ago

      FreeBSD has had kde on riscV for a bit now, if they can do it I can’t imagine Debian et all will have much issue once they get the ball rolling.

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      1 year ago

      People are running KDE desktop on the VisionFive 2.

      Arch Linux has had a RISC-V port for quite a while now - FYI, just in case you don’t know, Felix (the guy running the website I linked) is one of the Arch Linux package maintainers.