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World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu (canonical.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/riscv
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My unfunded speculation is that this will quite expensive and a bit hard to boot other thing different that Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

My feelings are more close to disappointment than hate. I used to love Ubuntu.

But my speculation is not related to Ubuntu per se. In the RISC-V world, bootloading your own OS is really hard. Every vendor is using their outdated custom Linux kernel, and it's really hard to boot something vanilla.