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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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How different are RISC-V laptops? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 hours ago by LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de to c/riscv@lemmy.ml

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Hello all,

I've only done very basic research on RISC-V as the DeepCompute RISC-V mobo caught my attention. For the software side, I know that support will (probably) come with time, so I can't really do much besides lament over it huh?

The main thing that caught my eye is that the DeepCompute mobo seems to only accept SD cards for storage. Is this a hard limit of RISC-V or is it just a limit of current technology (i.e. we need time to build something over RISC-V like x86_64/amd64?)?

I've also heard that Linux ran vaguely slow on RISC-V architectures, but ive only heard it as a passing comment. How true is this? Would future developments/putting in more time like for the decades behind x86_64 developments alleviate the speed issue?

Thank you all!

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[–] marcuse1w@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have a RISK-V laptop, but I do use an ARM Linux laptop as my private laptop. Even after about 10 years you still find quite a lot of software that is not distributed (in binary) for ARM. Sometimes you can compile it yourself, sometimes it's just not possible for a normal user.

So check if what you see as minimum requirements is possible right now, and see that you are clear how to get it. If your requirements are met now, then it can only be better in the future.

[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean I don't particularly hate having to compile everything myself, and your point about minimum requirements should've hit me wayyyy sooner. I really only planned to try RISC-V on my laptop since I only use it for productivity purposes anyways