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Do you genuinely think that's going to be soon?
Seem that I've been hearing about mainstream RISC being "just around the corner" for around three decades.
Well, there are already a couple of prototype laptops out there and there's a growing geopolitical pressure for investing in alternatives to usa tech. I'd not be surprised for a robust release appears in a few years. Besides, op seems to prioritize moving away from amd/intel over other things.
TBH, for every day computing, I think a 10-15 year old laptop running Linux probably runs better than a current R-V board. Less efficiently probably, but in terms of responsiveness and normal measures of usefulness.
So genuinely, if you really wanted to avoid giving big tech more money there's no real difference other than being able to say you absolutely don't even use an x86 chip you hate big tech so much (which is based and I respect)
I'm that goof who built a desktop-shaped computer with the Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V (RV64GCVB) board last year. The performance was awful compared to recent amd64 setup. The amount of RAM wasn't an issue, but the CPU was way to slow to even run a graphical interface (read XFCE), or compile some simple program in Rust. It's equivalent to those arm926ej-s SBCs ten to fifteen years ago capable of running Linux 2.6, and only suitable for writing code in text.
I'd say give it two more decades, at current pace.