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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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Better get an Open Hardware RISC V system, with stuff like the graphics, sound and elt/WiFi/Bt being Open Hardware too.
Then you can go with a fully open OS and it will actually make sense.
This. When RISC V hardware starts being more common and decently priced (price/perf), sure, I'll happily go all open. Till then running with half my hardware broken doesn't really do me any favors
Became quite trivial, e.g. took me 15min to get CopyParty on a Debian on a Banana Pi running RISC-V https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@utopiah/115332958192905605 and staying headless performances are fine.