World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu | Canonical
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DeepComputing partners with Canonical to unveil a huge boost to the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop family  The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is the world’s first RISC-V laptop pre-installed and powered by Ubuntu, which is one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world, providing developers with an outstanding mix of usability and reliability, […]

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My unfunded speculation is that this will quite expensive and a bit hard to boot other thing different that Ubuntu.

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      5 months ago

      an array of canonical footguns.

      My present hang up is their insistence of Snap in the presence of a better alternative (flatpak).

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        5 months ago

        Yeah snap kinda makes it a no go. However, throwing PopOS on the same machine could theoretically fix this.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      5 months ago

      Canonical is prepping for IPO. Preparatory enshitification is under way. Ask yourself why no one uses redhat outside of corporate IT these days. Between pushing shitty incompatible snaps in an anti competitive non Foss manner. Locking some security updates behind a subscription. Which they did open up a little after the backlash. It’s pretty plain why. They’re done focusing on providing quality to the end user. And instead gearing up to pursue monetization at all cost.

      Even down stream distros are looking upstream as they see the writing on the wall. Mint the number one recommended starter distro these days has long had a Debian experimental branch. Which they’ve been more seriously looking at. Since getting where they want to be is only getting harder when they have to de canonical first.

    • vsis@feddit.clOPEnglish
      2·
      5 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 Every vendor is using their outdated custom Linux kernel, and it’s really hard to boot something vanilla.