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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like it's ready for prime time. Probably only an option for RISC-V developers.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I think RISC-V is probably still about 10 years away from being a sensible choice for a laptop. There's a load of platform stuff around things like ACPI and Device Tree that's still being decided. Also some ISA extensions that are standard on x86/ARM are either unratified or very recently ratified (e.g. Vector).

For microcontrollers it's ready now, and for server applications it's probably doable now and will be solid in a few years. Laptops & phones will be last though.